The entire infrastructure continues to grow. If there’s economic justification for that to happen, then all these activities can take place … The investment that MCI is making in infrastructure is directly helping the educational use to continue to expand.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:The following was taken from a transcript of a 1995 video interview of Marc Andreessen, conducted for the Smithsonian Institution by David K. Allison, curator of the division of information technology and society at the National Museum of American History: ”The entire infrastructure continues to grow. If there’s economic justification for that to happen, then all these activities can take place. None of these crowd out the others because nobody is saying that you have to tune into them, that you have to take part in it. It’s just all there. It’s just all accessible to you. Educational use of the Net today is just blooming incredibly; and something to look at is the number of elementary schools today whose students have home pages online. This is something that wasn’t happening two years ago. It’s happening completely in parallel with Marketplace MCI. In fact, the investment that MCI is making in infrastructure is directly helping the educational use to continue to expand.”
Biography:Marc Andreessen worked with Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, to develop a browser that would be usable on any computer, easy to use and graphically rich. In 1993, their browser, Mosaic, completely changed the face of the Internet Ð it allowed HTML “image” tags which make it so text and art can appear on the same page; it allowed easy text scrolling; and it introduced hyperlinks, allowing users to simply click on an area of the screen to go to another document on the Internet. In1994, Mosaic was developed and marketed; the product eventually was named Netscape. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories
Title, headline, chapter name: Marc Andreessen
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/ma1.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.