Integrating real-time data such as video conferences should be easy, when we have the real-time protocols and the bandwidth. Collaboration involves much easier editing of hypertext, simultaneous editing, and hooking in groupware, which is much like hooking in video.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 e-mail exchange with Tim Berners-Lee, reporter Kris Herbst asks questions for a story she is preparing to run in the August issue of Internet World. Berners-Lee saved the communication and put it up on the W3.org Web site, in its “history” section. Herbst asks Berners-Lee a question regarding the evolution of the Web into a tool for real-time communication, interactive collaboration, and understanding reality. Berners-Lee replies: ”Integrating real-time data such as video conferences should be easy, when we have the real-time protocols and the bandwidth. Collaboration involves much easier editing of hypertext, simultaneous editing, and hooking in groupware, which is much like hooking in video. By the ‘understanding’ part I assume you are talking about putting more machine-understandable semantics into the Web. This will start with typed links – we have been prototyping a discussion system for example with the WIT (W3 Interactive Talk) experiment. This addition of semantics is going to be essential if computers are to more of the work for us in manipulating this Web, as at the moment its only people who can read it.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Telecommuting
Name of publication: Internet World
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview with Berners-Lee
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/InternetWorld/Interview.txt
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