One of the great things about the Web is that small companies, big companies – everyone will have a profile on the Web, and they will have lots of ways to make money at it.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 Boston Globe article, reporter Aaron Zitner quotes Tim Berners-Lee. Zitner writes: ”Hypertext makes cruising the Web a joy ride. ‘It came from thinking about the brain,’ says Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the Web while working at CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland. ‘The idea was to allow you to express random associations, like the brain does.’ Berners-Lee is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is working with a consortium to enhance the Web. As he sees the Web of the future, there is room for all – little and big, free and for-fee. ‘One of the great things about the Web is that small companies, big companies – everyone will have a profile on the Web,’ he says, ‘and they will have lots of ways to make money at it.'”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: A Simple Mosaic; New Software is Bringing Crowds to the Internet – And Anxiety to the Online Industry
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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