The TCP layer focuses on getting a single stream of data through. Modifications can be made for voice or even video streaming, but a full multimedia network is not achievable. An enhanced multimedia TCP/IP-type system will need to be constructed that allows the entire suite of users access to multimedia sessioning, with high data rates and access via fully distributed high-end processing devices, at dramatically lower costs.
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 TCP layer focuses on getting a single stream of data through. Modifications can be made for voice or even video streaming, but a full multimedia network is not achievable. An enhanced multimedia TCP/IP-type system will need to be constructed that allows the entire suite of users access to multimedia sessioning, with high data rates and access via fully distributed high-end processing devices, at dramatically lower costs.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
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 241
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne