Everyone’s wondering what will be the ultimate format for the World Wide Web in the future. Today it’s HTML and Hot Java. But will another format come along faster than your heart beats after five cups of coffee? No one knows for certain. Whatever the new language is, Sileo predicts that everyone from mom-and-pop shops to big technology firms will need to hire a consultant to help them translate this tongue.
Predictor: Sileo, Lorraine
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 Lorraine Sileo of Simba Information, a media forecasting and consulting firm in Wilton, Connecticut. Dannhauser writes about the expected need for programming consultants:”Everyone’s wondering what will be the ultimate format for the World Wide Web in the future. Today it’s HTML and Hot Java. But will another format come along faster than your heart beats after five cups of coffee? No one knows for certain. Whatever the new language is, Sileo predicts that everyone from mom-and-pop shops to big technology firms will need to hire a consultant to help them translate this tongue.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
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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