The next Bill Gates is not Marc Andreessen … There will be many browsers, hundreds of them … Netscape is but one awning on the Virtual Boulevard of Digital Cafes. Java is the coffee.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:John Murphey wrote the following in his online column Tech Track, a compilation of technology-related items regularly summarized from magazine and newspaper articles. It is a direct quotation of Nicholas Negroponte’s Oct. 9, 1995, response in Forbes ASAP to an earlier Forbes ASAP column written by George Gilder that claimed, among other things, that Marc Andreessen will be bigger than Bill Gates in the Internet World: ”Here is where George is wrong. The next Bill Gates is not Marc Andreessen … There will be many browsers, hundreds of them. Today I’ll bet on Niki Grauso’s, which will come out in 37 languages. Browsers are the surface of a much deeper phenomenon. Sun Microsystems has it right: Java … Netscape is but one awning on the Virtual Boulevard of Digital Cafes. Java is the coffee.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Monroe Street Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: Tech Track
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/111395/techtrack.html
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