The future of Web browsers is fairly mundane. There’s going to be more multimedia, more types of documents, more sophisticated kinds of tags.
Predictor: Arnett, Nick
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for InfoWorld, reporter Nick Wingfield quotes Nick Arnett: ”The future of Web browsers is fairly mundane. There’s going to be more multimedia, more types of documents, more sophisticated kinds of tags.”
Biography:Nick Arnett was president of Multimedia Computing Corp., the leading market research and consulting firm tracking multimedia technologies and markets, from 1988 through August of 1994. He later became the World-Wide Web product manager at Verity Inc. Earlier in the 1980s, he was a journalist with publications including InfoWorld and American City Business Journals. He was author of “The Internet and the Anti-net: Two Public Internetworks are Better than One.” (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: News: Web Apps Promise to Help Harness Internet Power
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1996/idgns.java.1995/idgns.java.1995.025.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Beckett, Angela