Computers are becoming more and more video-enabled, equipped to process and display video as a data type. For teleconferencing, multimedia publications, and a host of simulation applications, video is becoming part of it all, not just many, computers. This is happening so fast that the snail’s pace of television development, albeit digital, will be eclipsed by the personal computer.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes: ”Computers are becoming more and more video-enabled, equipped to process and display video as a data type. For teleconferencing, multimedia publications, and a host of simulation applications, video is becoming part of it all, not just many, computers. This is happening so fast that the snail’s pace of television development, albeit digital, will be eclipsed by the personal computer.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: February 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 3: Bitcasting
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 48
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