The concept of the information superhighway coupled with interactive multimedia will soon produce a new magic box (letÕs call it the TVComputer) that will incorporated features of both a computer and a TV in the same device. People are demanding such ÔTV featuresÕ as sound, image, and video in their computers and such Ôcomputer featuresÕ as interactivity and content-on-demand for their television. So the natural thing would be to provide them with both sets of features in the same device.
Predictor: Furht, Borko
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 ACM Computer Surveys article, ” Where Are Information Superhighways Headed?” Borko Furht of Florida Atlantic University writes: ”The concept of the information superhighway coupled with interactive multimedia will soon produce a new magic box (letÕs call it the TVComputer) that will incorporated features of both a computer and a TV in the same device. People are demanding such ÔTV featuresÕ as sound, image, and video in their computers and such Ôcomputer featuresÕ as interactivity and content-on-demand for their television. So the natural thing would be to provide them with both sets of features in the same device.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: ACM Computing Surveys
Title, headline, chapter name: Where Are Information Superhighways Headed?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 555
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne