The information highway needs to emulate nature and have the ability to recover from disasters built into it … As the Internet grows in complexity, and companies do more business on the World Wide Web, there needs to be greater resilience incorporated, so that a break in a line can be accommodated by the system.
Predictor: Benhamou, Eric
Prediction, in context:A Business Wire report on the European IT Forum 1995, sponsored by market-research company International Data Corp., includes a segment on a presentation by 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou: ”The information highway needs to emulate nature and have the ability to recover from disasters built into it, Eric Benhamou told the IDC European IT Forum. ‘We need to create a digital ecosystem,’ he said, drawing analogies with national parks which regularly recover from fires to be even more vigorous. As the Internet grows in complexity, and companies do more business on the World Wide Web, there needs to be greater resilience incorporated, so that a break in a line can be accommodated by the system, Benhamou explained.”
Biography:Eric Benhamou chaired the American Electronics Association’s National Information Infrastructure Task Force from 1993-1995, representing 3,000 member companies in the fastest growing segments of the high-technology industry. He later became chairman of the 3Com Corporation, a world leader in networking technologies. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: September 5, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Business Wire
Title, headline, chapter name: Ellison, Gates Jockey for Position on Info Highway at IDC’s European IT Forum
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=10b583b35d8db4e927149c6d774af9fe&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlzV&_md5=5b3885951838996becae48e23ee86726
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