Hardware and operating systems will become subordinate to the network; … the network will, in effect, become everything and the only thing.
Predictor: Roberts, Bert C.
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 MCI CEO Bert Roberts’ 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: ”Gilder is dead-on right that hardware and operating systems will become subordinate to the network; that the network will, in effect, become everything and the only thing.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
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.