The information age will move from dawn to full daylight. And our world will be changed. But probably not by Netscape … When a clearly superior browser becomes available, people will replace their Netscape browser just the way they got it – with the touch of a button.
Predictor: Ellison, Larry
Prediction, in context:John Murphey included 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 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’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: ”The center of gravity is indeed shifting away from the personal computer and toward the network – specifically toward the Internet’s World Wide Web … The information age will move from dawn to full daylight. And our world will be changed. But probably not by Netscape … When a clearly superior browser becomes available, people will replace their Netscape browser just the way they got it – with the touch of a button.”
Biography:Larry Ellison was the founder of Oracle and a leading entrepreneur in the 1990s. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
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
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.