You should have broadband data going into everyone’s home, and you should have computing devices everywhere doing interesting things. And when that happened there could be a very large new part of the software industry to address that.
Predictor: Clark, Jim
Prediction, in context:The following was taken from a transcript of a 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. Andreessen described Jim Clark’s vision of the network as seen in the early 1990s: ”[Jim Clark] had been very involved in the Time-Warner project, which envisioned interactive television delivered over a broadband network, where you have very powerful $200 boxes sitting on every TV set. He brought the viewpoint that you should have broadband data going into everyone’s home, and you should have computing devices everywhere doing interesting things. And when that happened there could be a very large new part of the software industry to address that.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
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.