There have to be easier answers in the future. Getting connected and getting the necessary bandwidth have to be trivially easy. I think market forces will drive this.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:Mosaic originator Marc Andreessen made the following comment in a 1994 article in Network Computing Magazine: ”There have to be changes in the Internet’s structure. Where do you go to get connected? Who runs the routers, the links, the interconnections? What do you pay? What happens when you run out of bandwidth? There have to be easier answers in the future. Getting connected and getting the necessary bandwidth have to be trivially easy. I think market forces will drive this.”
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: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Pattern of the Mosaic
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6d004516cc820836cda7f66c5f136b21&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=fa34f29c8a2e7cad415bce0edfdba183
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