Interactive TV may be one of the most comprehensive networking challenges ever undertaken … Decoding the bits at the user end is really the least of the challenges; the infrastructure required in terms of network services will be phenomenal. The interoperability challenges raised by the scurry to seize market share could be daunting … There is a natural synergy between object orientation and networking; the complexity inherent in a distributed multiplatform environment mandates a software technology that buffers users and developers from the underpinnings. Object orientation provides just that. YouÕll notice that all of the major systems vendors are incorporating object-oriented systems and software into their strategic product plans. IBM has stated, for example, that object orientation is the only mechanism through which weÕll ever see pervasive distributed computing.
Predictor: Lynch, Daniel C.
Prediction, in context:In a July 1993 article, ÒINTEROP: Cultivating the Leading Edge,Ó in Network World, reporter Joanne Cummings interviews INTEROP Co. President Daniel Lynch. Cummings quotes Lynch saying: ”Interactive TV may be one of the most comprehensive networking challenges ever undertaken … Decoding the bits at the user end is really the least of the challenges; the infrastructure required in terms of network services will be phenomenal. The interoperability challenges raised by the scurry to seize market share could be daunting … There is a natural synergy between object orientation and networking; the complexity inherent in a distributed multiplatform environment mandates a software technology that buffers users and developers from the underpinnings. Object orientation provides just that. YouÕll notice that all of the major systems vendors are incorporating object-oriented systems and software into their strategic product plans. IBM has stated, for example, that object orientation is the only mechanism through which weÕll ever see pervasive distributed computing.Ó
Biography:Daniel C. Lynch was the founder of CyberCash Inc. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: INTEROP: Cultivating the Leading Edge
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 44
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