We’ll have a consolidation of long-distance voice and data communications into one model. The Internet is a more legitimate cost-effective way than a private network for a small organization to have worldwide reach.
Predictor: Clark, Jim
Prediction, in context:Mosaic co-founder Jim Clark made the following comment in a 1994 article in Network Computing Magazine: ”We’ll have a consolidation of long-distance voice and data communications into one model. The Internet is a more legitimate cost-effective way than a private network for a small organization to have worldwide reach. Extend the idea beyond e-mail. Say you want to retrieve information, or use something like Mosaic to coordinate your worldwide sales force, technical support program or information dissemination. In a natural process, phone companies will have to account for it.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Pattern in the Mosaic
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6d004516cc820836cda7f66c5f136b21&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=fa34f29c8a2e7cad415bce0edfdba183
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.