At the application level, we have to establish what interactive television means and how to add value with high bandwith and interactivity … We’re laying the foundations for a huge class of opportunities.
Predictor: Myhrvold, Nathan
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Network Computing, Tim Haight interviews Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold. Haight writes: ”Nathan Myhrvold is used to looking at the big picture. Before founding his own software company, which Microsoft acquired in 1986, he worked with Professor Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University on cosmology and quantum theories of gravitation. Today, when he isn’t bouncing around in his Hummer, Myhrvold’s most frequent objects of observation are almost as large and complex: the world’s public data networks. Myhrvold’s division is responsible for identifying and creating new technology that will have a commercial impact on Microsoft and for integrating that into the company’s strategy and products. It’s clear that a good chunk of those technologies are on the Net. ‘These are incredible opportunities,’ he says. In the broadband area, ‘the work that has to be done to support continuous media and interactive applications is very exciting. At the application level, we have to establish what interactive television means and how to add value with high bandwith and interactivity.’ Microsoft is currently carrying out a technical trial of interactive television in the Redmond area. ‘We’re laying the foundations for a huge class of opportunities.'”
Biography:Nathan Myhrvold worked at Microsoft Corporation as chief technology officer in the 1990s. Myhrvold was responsible for the Advanced Technology and Research Group, which had a budget of over $2 billion per year. Earlier, he was group vice president of Applications and Content, which included a number of Microsoft divisions, including Desktop Applications, Consumer, Research and Microsoft On Line Systems. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: September 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Network Computing
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?m=92720e236045eac68bb019de4858751a
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