I think in the next two or three years we can implement a small handheld personal device that uses speech and handwriting recognition and can communicate both voice and data.
Predictor: Gupta, Satish
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for BusinessWeek, Catherine Arnst, Richard Brandt, Paul Eng and Peter Burrows quote Satish Gupta of IBM. They write: ”While this home computer stories, controls and processes all the many bits of data floating about the structure, such as household budgets, e-mail and movies downloaded from the cable system, each family member will be checking in regularly with his or her own very personal appliance. ‘I think in the next two or three years we can implement a small handheld personal device that uses speech and handwriting recognition and can communicate both voice and data,’ Gupta says. Such a device will allow its owner to be constantly in touch with every other component of his or her personal network.”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: BusinessWeek
Title, headline, chapter name: The Information Appliance
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 98
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney