As more and more “traditional” industries and businesses start to use the Internet as a business tool, the demand for Internet service providers in many forms will increase dramatically. However, few of these new customers can or should be expected to show the tolerance normally afforded fledgling industries in high-technology areas. This is especially true as the Internet promoters themselves have built up an expectation that the industry is more mature than other new technologies owing to its relative age and maturity.
Predictor: Gordon, Howell
Prediction, in context:In a research presentation titled “The Emerging Internet Market,” presented at the Internet Society’s INET ’95 June 27-30 in Honolulu, Hawaii, commerce commentators Gordon Howell, George Weir and Tony Freeth say: ”As more and more ‘traditional’ industries and businesses start to use the Internet as a business tool, the demand for Internet service providers in many forms will increase dramatically. However, few of these new customers can or should be expected to show the tolerance normally afforded fledgling industries in high-technology areas. This is especially true as the Internet promoters themselves have built up an expectation that the industry is more mature than other new technologies owing to its relative age and maturity.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Emerging Internet Market
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/003/abst.html
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