I view the Internet as the correct model. It is a set of roads and highways with a total laissez faire kind of glue around it. There really isn’t any management per se. And so I think that’s a much more viable model for how the world is going to evolve than, say, CompuServe, America Online, or services like Prodigy, where there’s a highly visible control structure, with a signature look and feel.
Predictor: Warnock, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, David Henry Goodstein interviews John Warnock, the founder of Adobe Systems. Goodstein quotes Warnock:”I view the Internet as the correct model. It is a set of roads and highways with a total laissez faire kind of glue around it. There really isn’t any management per se. And so I think that’s a much more viable model for how the world is going to evolve than, say, CompuServe, America Online, or services like Prodigy, where there’s a highly visible control structure, with a signature look and feel.”
Biography:John Warnock was the founder of Adobe, a major software maker of the 1990s. He introduced the concept of PDF in 1991. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Scriptwriter: John Warnock, the Inventor of PostScript and the Founder of Adobe Systems, Plots the Future of Media
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/postscript_pr.html
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