Job applicants coming out of college today [will] not ask to see organization charts, but would rather know “what’s the size of the pipe” available to their desktops.
Predictor: Patrick, John
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 John Patrick, vice president of IBM’s Global Networking Division: ”John Patrick … delivered an evangelical call to embrace the Internet. He warned delegates that job applicants coming out of college today would not ask to see organization charts, but would rather know ‘what’s the size of the pipe’ available to their desktops. He showed examples of Web sites created and run by 15-year-olds and said these students would expect to be using the Internet when they start their jobs. He said concerns about Internet security were ill-founded, given the available encryption technology which allows credit card informtion to be transmitted securely today. This was far safer, he said, than handing your credit card to a hotel clerk or reading the number over the telephone to make a theater booking … He said [companies] should make it easier for customers to reach them by e-mail, and that they should create directory pages to show everyone’s e-mail address.”
Date of prediction: September 5, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
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
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
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney