The rise of client/server computing and groupware will further alter our way of working: Instead of using your own personal computer and then sharing data with other people, you will use the network for what Steve Jobs calls “interpersonal computing.” Both the location of the data and the means by which it is obtained are quickly becoming completely transparent.
Predictor: Andrews, David
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for Byte, David Andrews foresees a communications revolution in the 1990s. He writes: ”In the 1990s computers and communications will be inseparable. We’re almost at the point now where, by definition, a personal computer is a node on a LAN (Local-Area Network). The rise of client/server computing and groupware will further alter our way of working: Instead of using your own personal computer and then sharing data with other people, you will use the network for what Steve Jobs calls ‘interpersonal computing.’ Both the location of the data and the means by which it is obtained are quickly becoming completely transparent.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Byte
Title, headline, chapter name: Tapping into the Global Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 38
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