In the future, there will be almost as few humans browsing the Net as there are people using libraries today. Agents will be doing that for most of us.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 column for Wired magazine, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab, writes:”We are at a time in history when the Net is sufficiently small for some to believe that Mosaic and other browsing tools are the only future. They are not. Even today, the people surfing the Net are distinguished by having the time to do so. In the future, there will be almost as few humans browsing the Net as there are people using libraries today. Agents will be doing that for most of us.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: 000 000 111 – Double Agents
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.03/negroponte_pr.html
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