The real value of an information network will not be in a 500-channel cable TV and other entertainment media for home users but will be driven by business. The network will help large work groups automate their organizations and use fiberoptics and other technologies to transmit video, audio and data.
Predictor: McNealy, Scott
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in the Business Times of Singapore, Josephe Rajendran talks with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: ”[The] Internet is the information highway of the future, regardless of what U.S. Vice President Al Gore thinks, says Sun Microsystems chief Scott McNealy … ‘The real value of an information network will not be in a 500-channel cable TV and other entertainment media for home users but will be driven by business,’ he said. ‘The network will help large work groups automate their organizations and use fiberoptics and other technologies to transmit video, audio and data … In two years’ time, Sun will be completely off the mainframe [computers]. My advice to companies is to slowly reduce their dependence on mainframes. What can be pushed to network computer should be pushed to them.'”
Biography:Scott McNealy was the CEO and cofounder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading global supplier of network computing solutions, including Java, in the 1990s. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: April 4, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Business Times (Singapore)
Title, headline, chapter name: Future is with Internet, Says Head of Sun
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=20686fc185df729c6f70cc6fbb8bea0e&_docnum=36&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlzV&_md5=814ec600246cfe3d80744dfd6cc38557
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