In the short term, people will use the WWW as an interface to whatever systems they have, with people taking their traditional EDI systems and running them over their Internet connections. But for the longer term, I hope we’ll see electronic commerce using objects on the Web. Web protocols don’t support such transactions yet.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Government Computer News, associate editor Shawn P. McCarthy interviewed Tim Berners-Lee, designer of the World Wide Web, and Marc Andreessen, developer of the Mosaic browser. They shared their views on the Web and government involvement. In response to the question, ÒElectronic date interchange is important to the government. But thereÕs a distrust of on-line financial transactions. How can this be cleared up?Ó Berners-Lee replies: ÒIn the short term, people will use the WWW as an interface to whatever systems they have, with people taking their traditional EDI systems and running them over their Internet connections. But for the longer term, I hope we’ll see electronic commerce using objects on the Web. Web protocols don’t support such transactions yet.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Government Computer News
Title, headline, chapter name: They Made the Web Spun Round the World
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 24
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