You could combine a word processor with a food processor and eat your words, I suppose. But I think the idea of one standardized appliance is nonsense … The key to creating successful future technologies will lie in adding value to people’s two most valuable possessions – time and money. Meeting those two criteria will be crucial. Future technologies will give users more choices than ever before. That means that selectivity will become increasingly important.
Predictor: Ferren, Brian
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for CNET News.com, a staff report quotes a statement made by Brian Ferren, executive vice president for Walt Disney Imagineering, at the Western Cable Show. The article says:”Will the PC and the TV evolve into a single information appliance sometime in the future? Probably not, according to a panel today at the Western Cable Show. ‘You could combine a word processor with a food processor and eat your words, I suppose,’ said Brian Ferren, executive vice president for Walt Disney Imagineering. ‘But I think the idea of one standardized appliance is nonsense … The key to creating successful future technologies will lie in adding value to people’s two most valuable possessions – time and money. Meeting those two criteria will be crucial. Future technologies will give users more choices than ever before. That means that selectivity will become increasingly important.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: CNET News.com
Title, headline, chapter name: PC Weds TV? Expect a Long Engagement
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-278499.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney