“When you hand a waiter your credit card, he could walk out the back and run it through three times,” he says, yet most people take security for granted. Thanks to new encryption methods and hardware “firewalls,” he says, the Net can be made evey safer than standard transaction methods. For now, Chalk refuses to say that the Internet is the best thing going. “It’s going to be the best thing going.”
Predictor: Chalk, Dave
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Profit, writer Ian Portsmouth quotes Dave Chalk, president of Vancouver-based Doppler Computer Superstores. Portsmouth writes: ”A major barrier to Internet commerce is security. But Chalk says there are easier ways to commit fraud. ‘When you hand a waiter your credit card, he could walk out the back and run it through three times,’ he says, yet most people take security for granted. Thanks to new encryption methods and hardware ‘firewalls,’ he says, the Net can be made evey safer than standard transaction methods. For now, Chalk refuses to say that the Internet is the best thing going. ‘It’s going to be the best thing going.'”
Biography:Dave Chalk established himself as a tech expert in the 1990s as the host of Dave Chalk’s Computer Show, a television program aimed at providing practical computer information with a human touch. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Profit
Title, headline, chapter name: Selling on the Net
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000007735514&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=5&Sid=1&RQT=309
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Canizaro, Lauren