Hypertext editors allowing nonexpert users to make hypertext links to organize published information. This will bring the goal of computer-supported collaboration closer, with front-end update, and annotation.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery], Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Ari Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Arthur Secret outline the status of the World Wide Web and its future. They list eight items “we look forward to in the next few years” – this is the second:”Hypertext editors allowing nonexpert users to make hypertext links to organize published information. This will bring the goal of computer-supported collaboration closer, with front-end update, and annotation.”
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: August 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Communications of the ACM
Title, headline, chapter name: The World-Wide Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web2.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/326/922/36904048w2/purl=rc1_ITOF_0_A15936125&dyn=7!xrn_12_0_A15936125?sw_aep=ncliveec
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