In the year 2000, just about every business will rely on online conversations for sharing information with customers, says Jerry Michalski … To make cyberspace conversations fruitful, however, they’ll need your moderating services. As an online host, you’ll be familiar with group and online dynamics and the topics of discussion. Prospects might include big companies that want to field customer questions, online publishers, and even user, trade and business organizations trying to lure new members.
Predictor: Michalski, Jerry
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Home Office Computing, Carol Leonetti Dannhauser reports on the top employment/business ideas for the year 2000. She interviews a panel of experts, including editor and technology consultant Jerry Michalski of New York. Dannhauser writes about the expected need for online hosts and moderators: ”In the year 2000, just about every business will rely on online conversations for sharing information with customers, says Jerry Michalski, managing editor of Release 1.0, a newsletter published by Esther Dyson about the future of communications and computer technology. To make cyberspace conversations fruitful, however, they’ll need your moderating services. As an online host, you’ll be familiar with group and online dynamics and the topics of discussion. Prospects might include big companies that want to field customer questions, online publishers, and even user, trade and business organizations trying to lure new members.”
Biography:Jerry Michalski took over the job of managing editor of Release 1.0 from Esther Dyson. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-commerce
Name of publication: Home Office Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Best Businesses For the Year 2000: Which 35 Opportunities Will Be Hard to Beat – and Which Will Be Obsolete
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=4cec6d3d4651d4c4adc3992cc94c5f0e&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=9d2e27b03e11989b192aad70c299c7b8
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