The corporate decision today should be: Forget building your own network. The Internet is by far the best buy for a commercial user. It offers the largest network; it has the lowest cost. Uses will be all voice, data and video communications including the listing of all products and services. These listings – not advertisements – will totally change the way industry and the public search for and buy products.
Predictor: Roberts, Lawrence G.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “The Information Revolution,” edited by Donald Altschiller, carries a reprint of a 1994 Computerworld article ÒThe History of the Future,Ó by senior editor Gary H. Anthes. Anthes interviewed more than a dozen pioneers of ARPAnet, forerunner to todayÕs Internet, including Lawrence G. Roberts, president of ATM Systems a division of Connectware, managed development of the ARPAnet at Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthes quotes Roberts saying:ÒThe corporate decision today should be: Forget building your own network. The Internet is by far the best buy for a commercial user. It offers the largest network; it has the lowest cost. Uses will be all voice, data and video communications including the listing of all products and services. These listings – not advertisements – will totally change the way industry and the public search for and buy products.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Information Revolution (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: The History of the Future
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 41
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne