Network-centric computing, the ability to link computers of all types and sizes, will have a significant impact on business, education, and individual communication.
Predictor: Gerstner, Lou
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for CNET News.com, a staff report quotes a statement made by Louis Gerstner, IBM CEO at the fall 1995 Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas. The article says:”In an address yesterday at the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, IBM chief executive Louis V. Gerstner said his company is focusing on what it believes will mark a new era in the computer industry – the concept of ‘network-centric’ computing. Gerstner says network-centric computing, the ability to link computers of all types and sizes, will have a significant impact on business, education, and individual communication. Gerstner announced that IBM is developing a new type of computing device that would provide a fast communications connection to the Internet and online services. Gerstner says IBM expects to ship the new machine, which some are calling an Internet station, early next year. IBM is not the first company to say it is working on an Internet terminal. Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Acorn Computers have made similar announcements.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: CNET News.com
Title, headline, chapter name: Gerstner Says Network Computing is IBM’s Future
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-275668.html
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