The fundamental question facing America Online is not whether it can keep up with excessive demand in the future. It’s whether there’s going to be any demand at all.
Predictor: Nollinger, Mark
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Wired magazine, Mark Nollinger writes: ”Capacity problems might indeed be a thing of the past, observers say, but not necessarily because of any major improvements in AOL technology. The fundamental question facing America Online is not whether it can keep up with excessive demand in the future. It’s whether there’s going to be any demand at all.”
Date of prediction: September 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-commerce
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: America, Online! America Online Has Been on a Rocket Ride, Now it Would Like to Morph Into an ‘Interactive Service Company’ Before Microsoft and the Web Eat its Lunch
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/aol_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry