By the year 2000, long-distance video conversations will be a commonplace feature of the Information Superhighway.
Predictor: Landweber, Lawrence
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in the Wisconsin State Journal, reporter Mike Dorsher interviews Internet pioneer Lawrence Landweber. He writes:”In 1977, a computer at UW-Madison made history and paved the way for the Internet when it took calls from about 20 terminals around the United States plus one in Australia. That UW-Madison computer, Landweber recalled, filled four cabinets and had 1 megabyte of memory, less than is now contained on one 3 1/2-inch disk. Today, Landweber is vice president of the Internet Society, which drew 800 people from 100 countries to its annual conference last year in San Francisco. Thousands more in 15 countries participated through interactive video transmitted over the Internet. By the year 2000, long-distance video conversations will be a commonplace feature of the Information Superhighway, Landweber predicted. All it takes, based on his current experiments, is a video camera hooked into a computer on each end, with an Internet connection between them.”
Biography:Lawrence Landweber, then at the University of Wisconsin, created THEORYNET, providing electronic mail to a group of more than 100 computer-science researchers using a locally developed e-mail system over TELENET in 1977. In 1979 he worked with the National Science Foundation to establish a U.S. research computer network that eventually became NSFNET. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wisconsin State Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet: Computer Network is Superhighway On-Ramp
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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