Common directory services would make it easier to cope with the richness of services available, and entrepreneurs would, for a fee, advise users about the servers most suitable for their needs.
Predictor: Dertouzos, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for Technology Review, MIT researcher/administrator Michael Dertouzos writes about the world’s information infrastructure initiatives: ”In the information marketplace, organizations and individuals would buy and sell information services via computers connected to the NII [National Information Infrastructure]. Common directory services would make it easier to cope with the richness of services available, and entrepreneurs would, for a fee, advise users about the servers most suitable for their needs.”
Biography:Michael Dertouzos was director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the author of “The Unfinished Revolution.” He led a project intended to make computers adapt to people. He outlined a comprehensive proposal for a national information “infrastructure” in a 1991 article for Technology Review. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Service Providers
Name of publication: Technology Review
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Information Marketplace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/237/651/57953601w3/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A9329382&dyn=5!xrn_1_0_A9329382?sw_aep=ncliveec
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