There is not going to be an Internet in the year 2010, there will merely be a Net, and this Net will be provided most likely from the telephone company or something like that. And all kinds of things will plug into it for all kinds of different purposes.
Predictor: Tenenbaum, Marty
Prediction, in context:In an article in Telephony, Karen Egolf reported on an expert panel appearing at Internet World ’95 in Boston. The panel was titled “The Internet in Year 2010.” Panel member Marty Tenenbaum comments on how ubiquitous networked devices will be: ”There is not going to be an Internet in the year 2010, there will merely be a Net, and this Net will be provided most likely from the telephone company or something like that. And all kinds of things will plug into it for all kinds of different purposes.”
Biography:Jay “Marty” Tenenbaum was founder and CEO of Enterprise Integration Technologies, the company that pioneered security and payment for the Web. VeriFone acquired EIT in 1995. He was also the founder and first chairman of CommerceNet, the premier industry association for Internet commerce, with nearly 600 corporate members worldwide. Earlier in his career, he was a prominent AI researcher. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Telephony
Title, headline, chapter name: The Year 2010: Internet to the Toaster
Quote Type: Direct quote
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