Once optical fibers reach the home … they could be connected to a wireless local-area network within a single dwelling. This would provide consumers with even more convenient access to the worldÕs information resources.
Predictor: Snider, James
Prediction, in context:In their 1992 book “Future Shop,” Jim Snider and Terra Ziporyn write: ”Once optical fibers reach the home … they could be connected to a wireless local-area network within a single dwelling. This would provide consumers with even more convenient access to the worldÕs information resources. Many business offices already use such high-speed wireless networks to access information, and itÕs only a matter of time before such networks become affordable to consumers.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Future Shop : How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy
Title, headline, chapter name: The Manifesto of Consumer Empowerment
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 211
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty