A nationwide digital video service … would let users of personal computers customize their own video newscasts or conduct online research from video news archives.
Predictor: Oracle Corporation
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, reporter John Markoff writes about a proposed plan to send digital video on the Internet. He writes:”Oracle Corp., a leading maker of software for managing large computer databases, is in discussions with several telephone, computer and news organizations to create a nationwide digital video service that would let users of personal computers customize their own video newscasts or conduct online research from video news archives. The discussions, which are not complete, have involved long-distance carriers AT&T Corp. and MCI Communications Corp., chip maker Intel Corp. and the news organizations CNN and Reuters, among other companies, according to people familiar with the plans. The Oracle service would seek to give desktop computer users much greater flexibility than offered by various video broadcast news services now available from Dow Jones and Bloomberg Business News, among others. The Oracle service would offer news clips digitally stored on a network ‘server’ computer, meaning the clips could be searched according to subject matter and retrieved in any order, similar to the way people now use computers to sort through text-based news wires and data bases. An NBC news service called NBC Desktop Video, now being introduced, has similar ambitions. With this service, digital video news feeds are broadcast throughout the day to corporate customers, who can distribute the material through their office computer networks or store it for later retrieval by employees.”
Date of prediction: March 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Oracle Plan May Enable PC Users to Customize News
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/impact/w95/RN/mar17news/Merc-news-oracle.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry