Europe is poised to benefit from the boom in information networks … Construction of an information society in Europe is not an option but a necessity.
Predictor: McGovern, Pat
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 IDG Chairman Pat McGovern: ”Europe is poised to benefit from ‘the boom in information networks,’ [McGovern] predicted, and by 1997 the region will recover its 35 percent share of the worldwide computer and telecommunications markets, which dipped to 27 percent last year in the aftermath of the European recession. Europe is ahead of both Japan and the U.S. in deploying information infrastructure, such as ISDN, and is well prepared to exploit it, with its ‘great technical resources, great social and cultural base and a multilingual community. Construction of an information society in Europe is not an option but a necessity,’ McGovern declared.”
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: Partial quote
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