New technology promises to make available the capacity of being able to provide Internet services to people on remote or mobile platforms. The metaphor might be World Wide Web to the Rain Forest and also to platforms such as oceanographic research vessels … let’s just say that we are looking for an appropriate means of serving remote and mobile applications that have heretofore not been feasible.
Predictor: Goldstein, Steve
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 question-answer interview published on the Cook Report on Internet Web site, Steve Goldstein, a researcher/administrator for the National Science Foundation, Goldstein says: ”New technology promises to make available the capacity of being able to provide Internet services to people on remote or mobile platforms. The metaphor might be World Wide Web to the Rain Forest and also to platforms such as oceanographic research vessels … let’s just say that we are looking for an appropriate means of serving remote and mobile applications that have heretofore not been feasible.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: The Cook Report on Internet
Title, headline, chapter name: Steve Goldstein Describes History of First ICM Grant – Speculates On New Directions
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.cookreport.com/icm.shtml
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney