What would be the ideal in a few years if everything happened right? There would be a single cross-platform plug-in object technology where you could slot components in. It’s sort of the Holy Grail right now. I’m skeptical that there will be enough cooperation between vendors to make it happen.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:The following comes from an August 1995 interview between Marc Andreessen and Barry Phillips: PHILLIPS- “So object technology may be a barrier because it’s not cross-platform today?” ANDREESSEN- “The vendors have done a very poor job of actually delivering on cross platforms ways to plug and play components. It doesn’t exist. OpenDoc doesn’t deliver. OLE doesn’t deliver. None of these things really deliver. What would be the ideal in a few years if everything happened right? There would be a single cross-platform plug-in object technology where you could slot components in. It’s sort of the Holy Grail right now. I’m skeptical that there will be enough cooperation between vendors to make it happen. I think it’s going take vendors that are writing above the traditional operating systems to be able to do it.”
Biography:Marc Andreessen worked with Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, to develop a browser that would be usable on any computer, easy to use and graphically rich. In 1993, their browser, Mosaic, completely changed the face of the Internet Ð it allowed HTML “image” tags which make it so text and art can appear on the same page; it allowed easy text scrolling; and it introduced hyperlinks, allowing users to simply click on an area of the screen to go to another document on the Internet. In1994, Mosaic was developed and marketed; the product eventually was named Netscape. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: August 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview: Marc Andreessen
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.cc.ntnu.edu.tw/~t04002/marc.htm
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