Wireless access … will enable extensive host migration to PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and the migration of network identity from host to person, increasing demands put upon the network to “Find Me!”
Predictor: McGarty, Terrence P.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User'” by Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. McGarty is chairman and CEO of The Telemarc Group, Inc. and Haywood is with RAM Mobile Data Inc. They write: ”Wireless access … will enable extensive host migration to PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and the migration of network identity from host to person, increasing demands put upon the network to ‘Find Me!'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 246
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne