Three to five years from now there will be a new type of medium for society in general.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:Marc Andreessen made the following comment in a 1994 article in Network Computing Magazine: ”The Internet completely changes every year or two because of the composition of the people on it. The core community from 1985 is only a tiny fraction of today’s. Jim [Clark] and I think that three to five years from now there will be a new type of medium for society in general.”
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 脨 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: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Pattern in the Mosaic
Quote Type: Direct quote
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