We aim to promote a route for incremental moves from existing static images toward full VR, so programs on slower machines – or with slower links – can still negotiate some representation of the VR world that they can handle. This is the way.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Information Week article regarding the future of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee answers the question, “Where is the Internet headed?” He says: ”I held a session at the first World Wide Web conference in Geneva in July ’94 to poke developers into the virtual reality direction. In particular, we aim to promote a route for incremental moves from existing static images toward full VR, so programs on slower machines – or with slower links – can still negotiate some representation of the VR world that they can handle. This is the way.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: July 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Information Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=7e82f5bf6b616ec51c76b098125d70e0&_docnum=49&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=113fd91a11b8fc2a6b0d1f2abaf5d4ba
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