[By the year 2000,] we will have more than 100 million addresses and Web pages going over very high-bandwidth networks into the home. There will be a hybrid fiber/coax plant.
Predictor: Doerr, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Network Computing magazine, a number of Internet pioneers and administrators were asked for their predictions for the year 2000. John Doerr, partner at the time in Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers, comments: ”[By the year 2000,] we will have more than 100 million addresses and Web pages going over very high-bandwidth networks into the home. There will be a hybrid fiber/coax plant.”
Biography:John Doerr was hired at Intel, then a small, chip-making company, in 1974. He stayed there through the remainder of the ’70s. In 1980, he joined the high-tech venture capital partnership Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers, where he helped nurture the growth of such Silicon Valley superstars as Sun, Intuit, and Netscape. In the late 1990s, he joined forces with Jim Barksdale to create TechNet Ð a bipartisan group designed to promote the new economy and the political profile of high-tech ideas. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Millennium Prophesies
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=1b2401a7f3b066acd9e0ae52a25c0e21&_docnum=4&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=1a8616c1ba5ed2fe70f13731c109363c
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