The network of networks could enable a million human brains to interconnect and form a sort of planetary superbrain … By 2020, 12 billion machines from cardiac simulators to vehicle braking systems will be connected to the Internet.
Predictor: Huitema, Christian
Prediction, in context:A 1995 article in Tech Europe reflects on the Telecom T95 Forum in Geneva, quoting Christian Huitema. It says: ”Leading American telecommunications companies regard the Internet as a very important industrial and commercial opportunity. Others, such as Christian Huitema, a researcher with the Institut Francais de Recherche en Informatique et Automatismes (INRIA) go even further: Mr. Huitema suggests that the network of networks could enable a million human brains to interconnect and form a sort of planetary superbrain. He predicts that by 2020, 12 billion machines from cardiac simulators to vehicle braking systems will be connected to the Internet.”
Biography:Christian Huitema was the developer of a number of research projects in Internet telephony and Internet conferencing in the 1990s at Inria and Telcordia. He went to work for Microsoft in 2000. He was a trustee of the Internet Society from 1995-2001. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Tech Europe
Title, headline, chapter name: Telecommunications: Internet as Simple as a Phone Call
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=465cd6d9f3abb6c40b939c25276a60ac&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=e3a2cb1ae9229b0289aff69ba6733382
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