You’re going to find that people are going to start viewing the world as…as a concentric circle. In the very core of the circle is yourself, and then you move out from there into the workgroup, across the enterprise, and then to all of your existing customers, to all of your partners and then to all of the broader world, in general, to all of your potential partners and potential customers. It all comes down to a matter of access control: a matter of private domains of activity and public domains of activity and the ability for you to seamlessly jump between all of the different domains that you have access to.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:Thom Stark conducted an interview with Marc Andreessen for his “Marc Andreessen Interview Page” in 1995. Here is an excerpt: STARK- “Within the next two or three years, it’s going to be as commonplace to have an Internet e-mail address and a URL on a business card as it is today to have a telephone and fax number. Once that happens, the distinction between being on a corporate LAN and being on the Internet is going to pretty much evaporate, other than, if you have a firewall, which side of the firewall you’re on.” ANDREESSEN- “Yeah, I think that’s true. And I think that, maybe carrying that even a little bit farther, you’re going to find that people are going to start viewing the world as…as a concentric circle. In the very core of the circle is yourself, and then you move out from there into the workgroup, across the enterprise, and then to all of your existing customers, to all of your partners and then to all of the broader world, in general, to all of your potential partners and potential customers. It all comes down to a matter of access control: a matter of private domains of activity and public domains of activity and the ability for you to seamlessly jump between all of the different domains that you have access to.”
Biography:Marc Andreessen worked with Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, to develop a browser that would be usable on any computer, easy to use and graphically rich. In 1993, their browser, Mosaic, completely changed the face of the Internet Ð it allowed HTML “image” tags which make it so text and art can appear on the same page; it allowed easy text scrolling; and it introduced hyperlinks, allowing users to simply click on an area of the screen to go to another document on the Internet. In1994, Mosaic was developed and marketed; the product eventually was named Netscape. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Title, headline, chapter name: The Marc Andreessen Interview Page
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://users.rcn.com/thomst/marca.html
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