At work, PCs will conduct video conferences, deliver messages and draw data from sources around the world. At home, PC-based technology will turn televisions into interactive information centers.
Predictor: Grove, Andy
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article in The Economist, Intel CEO Andy Grove talks about the future. The article says: ”Trying to guess what tomorrow’s computers will look like is Intel’s greatest challenge. Andy Grove reckons PC technology will revolutionize communications both at work and at home. At work, PCs will conduct video conferences, deliver messages and draw data from sources around the world. At home, PC-based technology will turn televisions into interactive information centers. Intel, says Mr. Grove, aims to deliver the chip-based ‘intelligent’ control mechanisms for these newly communicative PCs and TVs, along with the gadgetry needed to link them together.”
Date of prediction: July 3, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: The Economist
Title, headline, chapter name: The Coming Clash of Logic
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
The Economist, 7/3/93, Vol. 328 Issue 7818, p21, 3p http://web20.epnet.com/citation.asp?tb=1&_ug=dbs+0+ln+en%2Dus+sid+20D390F6%2D4097%2D4547%2DB228%2D0D3A749AA94F%40sessionmgr5+61AA&_us=bs+Andy++Grove+cst+0%3B1%3B2%3B6+ds+Andy++Grove+dstb+KS+hd+0+hs+%2D1+or+Date+pr+255+ri+KAAACB3B00015889+sl+0+sm+KS+so+all+ss+SO+83D3&fn=201&rn=202
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