I believe that almost everyone will eventually have continually connected bandwidth rather than intermittent connections.
Predictor: O'Reilly, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The Irish Times, publisher Tim O’Reilly says: ”Perhaps one of the greatest needs is for a low-cost Web server so that everyone who has a browser can also run a server (because I believe that almost everyone will eventually have continually connected bandwidth rather than intermittent connections).”
Biography:Tim O’Reilly was founder and first president of O’Reilly & Associates, a computer-book-publishing company that helped popularize the Internet in the decade of the 1990s. His Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and one of the initial commercial sites on the World Wide Web. He received InfoWorld’s Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on behalf of the Open Source community. He served on the board of trustees for the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: May 8, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: Irish Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Cork Express
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=3073ac961ffe773b16f36210dfaa1ea3&_docnum=4&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=f98fe278f4516c4ce1524b3124816d24
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