Teleconferencing – in which you can share data, images and speech – will make the concept of much business travel redundant … Already airlines are scaling down their expectations of numbers of business travelers toward the end of the century, and it’s the computer that is to blame.
Predictor: Grove, Andy
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in The Observer, Robin McKie talks with Intel CEO Andy Grove. She writes: ”In short, it’s Intel’s belief that we should forget the idea of using technology to ease access to old concepts, and pre-recorded data and entertainment, and concentrate instead on exchanging and processing information – instantly. As a result, the desktop computer will soon not only ‘eat’ the television, as Grove so eloquently puts it; it should also make serious inroads into the transport industry. ‘Teleconferencing – in which you can share data, images and speech – will make the concept of much business travel redundant,’ he says. ‘Already airlines are scaling down their expectations of numbers of business travelers toward the end of the century, and it’s the computer that is to blame.'”
Date of prediction: March 13, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Video Conferencing
Name of publication: Observer
Title, headline, chapter name: Superhighway or Dead End?
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
The Observer Business Page; Page 5 / http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=55d49bb0ea7b9bd36a8e3cf4def77ff7&_docnum=67&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlzV&_md5=00e258d875793248f4d9b34a6a5273a2
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