The Nextnet could offer better hypertext links to tame the chaos of the World Wide Web and download video and software long before flying toasters arrive.
Predictor: Binder, Richard
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Newsweek magazine, Sharon Begley and Adam Rogers quote Richard Binder. They write: ”A system of electronic switches called Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) already runs a few local networks and routes data faster and with less loss of integrity than on most of the Internet. ‘The big question is whether ATM will replace the Internet,’ says Richard Binder, who is working on the gigabit network project. With such agile software, the Nextnet could offer better hypertext links to tame the chaos of the World Wide Web and download video and software long before flying toasters arrive.” [In the mid-1990s, when download times for Web surfers were extremely long, one of the earliest and most popular screen-saving utilities produced multiple, moving images of flying toasters.]
Date of prediction: February 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: MBones and Giganets: What Will Replace the Internet?
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?%20m=a02afd22778df975b9d08447fcdbb115&%20docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzb-1S1zV&%20md5=92599ec03d9870741b186ad102a9732d9
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