The World Wide Web will evolve into an open platform for distributing corporate data.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 interview with Marc Andreessen for InfoWorld magazine, writer Nick Wingfield’s lead paragraph reads: ”Marc Andreessen, vice president of technology at Netscape Communications Corp., believes the World Wide Web will evolve into an open platform for distributing corporate data.”
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: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Open Access
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview: Marc Andreessen Tackles Internet Issues
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1996/idgns.java.1995/idgns.java.1995.065.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.