The 21st Century is going to go past search into analysis. And what analysis really is is cross-correlating information from many sources. And then what you will be able to do is solve problems, not just find things at random. And in order to do this, what you need underneath is very fine-grain classification. That’s the only known way of handling the world of a billion repositories.
Predictor: Schatz, Bruce R.
Prediction, in context:Bruce Schatz, the principal investigator on the NSF/ARPA/NASA-funded Digital Libraries project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivers the keynote lecture at the American Society for Information Science’s annual meeting, in Chicago Oct. 11, 1995. He says: ”The 21st Century is going to go past search into analysis. And what analysis really is is cross-correlating information from many sources. And then what you will be able to do is solve problems, not just find things at random. And in order to do this, what you need underneath is very fine-grain classification. That’s the only known way of handling the world of a billion repositories. What that means is that every community, large or small, has its own little digital library. The software does some computer-assisted indexing and it has some ‘semantic’ retrieval that uses that indexing to try to do vocabulary switching to try to do better kinds of search … This new functionality will happen. Commercial pressures will force this to happen.”
Date of prediction: October 11, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Keynote Plenary Lecture at American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting
Title, headline, chapter name: Information Analysis in the Net: The Interspace of the Twenty-First Century
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.asis.org/asis-95/Schatz-Keynote/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Strickland, Amanda M.