What you’ll see in the next wave is more like organization, which is what you’re used to, being able to do a real search. Like what online retrieval systems have done in the commercial market like Dialog for a long time … in the year 2000. Things will be a lot different then, and what will actually happen is ordinary people will be able to solve real information problems themselves, and you will see more about correlating information than doing searching … As a grand statement you can say that we all will be moving from something like the Internet to something like the Interspace.
Predictor: Schatz, Bruce R.
Prediction, in context:Bruce Schatz, the principal investigator on the NSF/ARPA/NASA-funded Digital Libraries project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivers the keynote lecture at the American Society for Information Science’s annual meeting, in Chicago Oct. 11, 1995. He says: ”What you’ll see in the next wave is more like organization, which is what you’re used to, being able to do a real search. Like what online retrieval systems have done in the commercial market like Dialog for a long time … Then consider the further future, the reason I’m saying millennium is because if you think about it, the next millennium is only correctly six years away, but popularly five years away, in the year 2000. Things will be a lot different then, and what will actually happen is ordinary people will be able to solve real information problems themselves, and you will see more about correlating information than doing searching … As a grand statement you can say that we all will be moving from something like the Internet to something like the Interspace. I will say a lot more about what the Interspace is, and why you would want to call it that rather than call it the Internet.”
Date of prediction: October 11, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Keynote Plenary Lecture at American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting
Title, headline, chapter name: Information Analysis in the Net: The Interspace of the 21st Century
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.asis.org/asis-95/Schatz-Keynote/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Strickland, Amanda M.