The network … packetizes data extensively, assuming that it can do so because communications between computers, which are capable of processing the packets. The current assumptions are that data from one location are independent of data from other locations. In a multimedia environment, this will no longer be the case. Data will be virtually aggregated into a compound multimedia object, thus creating a virtual multimedia object whose elements may be from a disparate set of users on the Internet. For instance, my mouse movement at one location will be related to my voice at another and a third party’s video at a third. The concatenation and orchestration of these disparate entities will be viewed as a single totality.
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: ”The network … packetizes data extensively, assuming that it can do so because communications between computers, which are capable of processing the packets. The current assumptions are that data from one location are independent of data from other locations. In a multimedia environment, this will no longer be the case. Data will be virtually aggregated into a compound multimedia object, thus creating a virtual multimedia object whose elements may be from a disparate set of users on the Internet. For instance, my mouse movement at one location will be related to my voice at another and a third party’s video at a third. The concatenation and orchestration of these disparate entities will be viewed as a single totality.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
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 240, 241
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne