Today, the volume of information being generated on the Internet seems to greatly exceed the ability of any one organization that attempts to categorize all Web pages and other resources. Although there will surely continue to be broad categorizations of Internet resources, a large number of narrower indexes, sometimes called “virtual libraries,” is likely to emerge.
Predictor: Arnett, Nick
Prediction, in context:In his 1994 online essay “Massively Parallel Wetware,” Nick Arnett wrote:”Today, the volume of information being generated on the Internet seems to greatly exceed the ability of any one organization that attempts to categorize all Web pages and other resources. Although there will surely continue to be broad categorizations of Internet resources, a large number of narrower indexes, sometimes called ‘virtual libraries,’ is likely to emerge. These are driven by the desire to create and/or serve a discrete community on the Internet.”
Biography:Nick Arnett was president of Multimedia Computing Corp., the leading market research and consulting firm tracking multimedia technologies and markets, from 1988 through August of 1994. He later became the World-Wide Web product manager at Verity Inc. Earlier in the 1980s, he was a journalist with publications including InfoWorld and American City Business Journals. He was author of “The Internet and the Anti-net: Two Public Internetworks are Better than One.” (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: Essay: Massively Parallel Wetware
Title, headline, chapter name: Getting Lost
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.mccmedia.com/html/wetware.html
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