The browser itself should disappear.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In an article for Computerworld about the December 1995 World Wide Web Consortium conference in Boston, Kim Nash reports on a speech by Web co-creator Tim Berners-Lee in which he sets forth his “wish list” for the Web’s next few years. Nash paraphrases Berners-Lee: ”The more critical Web improvements Berners-Lee said he hopes to see by the turn of the century include the following: Solid standards – These would include accepted protocols for embedding hypertext links inside electronic-mail messages and the replication of databases behind Web applications. Invisible browsers – Rather than launch a separate application for looking at the Web, users would have browser-like functions built into everyday PC software. ‘Browsers today are getting bigger and bigger as they try to do everything,’ he said. ‘I say the browser itself should disappear.’ A means of user verification – Missing from e-mail and Web forms transmitted over the Internet is a reliable way to authenticate who created and sent a given document. Encryption and other security methods must be built in to Web utilities to do this, he said.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: December 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Father of Web Asks for Far-Reaching Standards
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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