A wave of Net-based telephony products have the telcos’ long-term seers shakin’ in their recently deregulated boots. You heard it here first: the voice business is dead. Repeat: it’s not even a commodity; it’s doomed. The telcos know it, too.
Predictor: Wired editors
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 column for Wired magazine, the editors write: ”And you thought the telcos were getting into the entertainment biz because they had stars in their eyes. Not really, folks. More like dollars to lose. A wave of Net-based telephony products have the telcos’ long-term seers shakin’ in their recently deregulated boots. You heard it here first: the voice business is dead. Repeat: it’s not even a commodity; it’s doomed. The telcos know it, too. Why else are they rushing to change their images, cut ‘content’ deals, and hire old media barons like Stringer and Ovitz?”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Flux: Talk About a Revolution
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/flux.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney