[Ten years from now the Internet is] going to be whatever big research system is possible … My belief is that it will be a billion-dollar business in the early 21st Century. And what is it? It’s not Web fetching, which is just straight access, it’s not library search, which is just what you’re going to see in the next years when you can put up a big collection and actually search it. It’s going to be correlation, analysis, coming in with a real problem and being able to look through many many different sources and say, this thing here and this thing here combined in this certain way solves my problem. So we’re going to talk about cross-correlation, generic community systems and spaces not networks.
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: ”My hypothesis, as you can probably tell, is [10 years from now the Internet is] going to be whatever big research system is possible … My belief is that it will be a billion-dollar business in the early 21st Century. And what is it? It’s not Web fetching, which is just straight access, it’s not library search, which is just what you’re going to see in the next years when you can put up a big collection and actually search it. It’s going to be correlation, analysis, coming in with a real problem and being able to look through many many different sources and say, this thing here and this thing here combined in this certain way solves my problem. So we’re going to talk about cross-correlation, generic community systems and spaces not networks.”
Date of prediction: October 11, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
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://asis.org/asis-95/Schatz-Keynote/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Strickland, Amanda M.