Real drivers for commercial use today center around developments such as ubiquitous access, good no-brainer software for common computer platforms, killer applications like the World Wide Web, effective low-overhead payment mechanisms for business transactions … and connected computer hosts and networks to really significant levels.
Predictor: Rutkowski, Anthony Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer Reseller News, Charlotte Dunlap quotes Anthony Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society, describing where he sees the most business opportunities ahead. Dunlap writes: ”The world’s largest and most successful communications network is breaking free from the U.S. government, a move that poses future uncertainty for the Internet but also promises more business opportunities for VARs and others … In addition to shifting funding responsibility, a number of regional Internet service providers are being disconnected from the NSFNet – the network that was created by the National Science Foundation to allow speedy communications among select research centers, academic and government research groups. The NSFNet spurred the formation of tens of thousands of other computer networks worldwide, and the NSF has said it plans to create another high-speed network targeting, once again, only science and academic research communities … Executive director of the Reston, Va.-based Internet Society, Anthony Rutkowski, described where he sees the most business opportunities ahead. ‘The real drivers for commercial use today center around developments such as ubiquitous access, good no-brainer software for common computer platforms, killer applications like the World Wide Web, effective low-overhead payment mechanisms for business transactions … and connected computer hosts and networks to really significant levels.”
Biography:Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski was a lawyer and engineer who was an executive director of the Internet Society during some key years of development in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Computer Reseller News
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Preps for Commercialization – Fed Eases Out of Communications Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Smith, Ian T.