Over the next decade, the telecommunications systems of the world will be rebuilt from the ground up as copper wires are ripped up and replaced by hair-thin fiber-optic strands.
Predictor: Elmer-DeWitt, Philip
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Time magazine, Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes: ”The more fundamental changes are those taking place underneath our sidewalks and streets, where great wooden wheels of fiber-optic cable are being rolled out one block at a time. Over the next decade, the telecommunications systems of the world will be rebuilt from the ground up as copper wires are ripped up and replaced by hair-thin fiber-optic strands.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Time
Title, headline, chapter name: Welcome to Cyberspace: What is it? Where is it? And How Do We Get There?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/820/21/35506494w1/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A16656215&dyn=5!xrn_2_0_A16656215?sw_aep=ncliveec
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty