I want a portable, online all-the-time, intelligent valet that buys flowers, buys and sells stocks, arranges meetings, hunts up baseball statistics, doubles as a phone.
Predictor: Lynch, Daniel C.
Prediction, in context:In an interview for InfoWorld in 1994, Jayne Levin, editor of The Internet Letter, asks Daniel C. Lynch, “Do you foresee any applications emerging for wireless internetworking? What are they?” Lynch says: ”Well, I have seen the General Magic demos and must admit that I want that product. I want a portable, online all-the-time, intelligent valet that buys flowers, buys and sells stocks, arranges meetings, hunts up baseball statistics, doubles as a phone (not in release 1), and more. The only thing that scares me is worldwide portability. Now when I travel and cannot get my modem hooked up I can at least look at the physical incompatibility of the connectors and know I am out of luck. In a wireless world how will I even know if things are incompatible?”
Biography:Daniel C. Lynch was the founder of CyberCash Inc. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: To Dream the Internetworking Dream
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 16, Issue 18, Page S72 ISSN: 01996649
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