If it can happen for the world, it can happen for a company.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 e-mail exchange with Tim Berners-Lee, reporter Kris Herbst asks questions for a story she is preparing to run in the August issue of Internet World. Berners-Lee saved the communication and put it up on the W3.org Web site, in its “history” section. Herbst asks Berners-Lee a question about the development of enterprise-wide solutions that use the Web. Berners-Lee replies: ”If it can happen for the world, it can happen for a company. Some companies already have very large internal webs. You can see out but not in, of course – so we don’t know how many there are.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Telecommuting
Name of publication: Internet World
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview with Berners-Lee
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/InternetWorld/Interview.txt
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