Elon University
The prediction, in brief:

I truly believe that WWW, with Mosaic-like viewers, will be the “killer” application that catches many people’s imaginations … Many companies are stepping up to WWW as THE technology with which to present info on the Internet – companies like Novell, Quarterdeck and QMS.

Predictor: Martineau, Mike

Prediction, in context:

In the 1994 book “Canadian Internet Handbook,” the authors quote Mike Martineau, of NSTN Inc., who says “the future of the Internet is in tools like Mosaic.” They write: ”Mike indicates that these tools will launch the Internet into organizations in a way that has not been seen before. ‘I truly believe that WWW, with Mosaic-like viewers, will be the ‘killer’ application that catches many people’s imaginations … Many companies are stepping up to WWW as THE technology with which to present info on the Internet – companies like Novell, Quarterdeck and QMS.'”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software

Name of publication: Canadian Internet Handbook

Title, headline, chapter name: Tools for Knowledge Retrieval

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 162, 163

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Burnham, Jay