The Internet tomorrow … is going to be a kind of seamless mesh of transport networks, telephone networks, mass-media networks with the Internet tying it together, and every conceivable kind of interface to those networks will likely be used for navigating.
Predictor: Rutkowski, Anthony Michael
Prediction, in context:In his keynote speech Oct. 7, 1995, at the Internet @Telecom ’95 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Anthony Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society says: ”The Internet tomorrow … is going to be a kind of seamless mesh of transport networks, telephone networks, mass-media networks with the Internet tying it together, and every conceivable kind of interface to those networks will likely be used for navigating. The institutional environment I think is going to be interesting … and one of the things that may emerge over the coming months or year or two is what I call a ‘World Internetworking Association,’ some sort of means of global cooperation amongst all the players now that have an interest in this environment. I don’t think we should forget that what we are talking about here is human empowerment and to get access to as many people [as possible]. Not only access but to get them able to use this, to express their own human creativity and sharing that with the rest of the world is what this is all about.”
Biography:Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski was a lawyer and engineer who was an executive director of the Internet Society during some key years of development in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: October 7, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Internet@Telecom 95 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
Title, headline, chapter name: Anthony Rutkowski, Executive Director, Internet Society
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.itu.int/TELECOM/wt95/pressdocs/papers/rutk.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Smith, Ian T.