Soon all of this shopping- and video-on-demand infrastructure will be in and they’ll use it just to deliver the old medium. At that point people will desperately look around for other things to do with it. Somebody who recognizes that sequence of events could put up a few million dollars now to start getting ready for the moment when they’re going to need the content to put on that new thing.
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: ”Soon all of this shopping- and video-on-demand infrastructure will be in and they’ll use it just to deliver the old medium. At that point people will desperately look around for other things to do with it. Somebody who recognizes that sequence of events could put up a few million dollars now to start getting ready for the moment when they’re going to need the content to put on that new thing.”
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