You really do not want the Library of Congress on your desk. What you want is to be able to get at the Library of Congress from your desk. The reason you don’t want it on your desk is because as it gets out of date you have to worry about maintaining the Library of Congress!
Predictor: Hillis, W. Daniel
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly and Steven Levy quote Danny Hillis, the co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines, a supercomputer company designed, in part, to create the sort of machine that Hillis was thinking about when he said, “I want to design a computer that will be proud of me.” Hillis says:”You really do not want the Library of Congress on your desk. What you want is to be able to get at the Library of Congress from your desk. The reason you don’t want it on your desk is because as it gets out of date you have to worry about maintaining the Library of Congress!”
Biography:W. Daniel Hillis, vice president of research and development at the Walt Disney Company, an inventor of massively parallel computing, was also founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Corporation. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Kay + Hillis: Wired Brings Together Two Legendary Minds: Alan Kay and Danny Hillis
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney