PDAs will create a dramatic change on the Internet. The PDA is a wireless device that identifies with the individual. It is as powerful as many other host-like processors, but it dramatically changes the paradigm. It associates itself with a person at all times, and not with a location … The PDA will challenge the Internet to recognize the user qua user rather than the user qua host.
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: ”PDAs will create a dramatic change on the Internet. The PDA is a wireless device that identifies with the individual. It is as powerful as many other host-like processors, but it dramatically changes the paradigm. It associates itself with a person at all times, and not with a location … The PDA will challenge the Internet to recognize the user qua user rather than the user qua host.”
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:
Pages 256, 257
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne