The success of electronic mail has caused a bottleneck that can only be freed by a new approach to how we send and manage messages … Web browsers [will] eventually be built into most applications instead of run as stand-alone applications as they typically are today.
Predictor: Zisman, Michael
Prediction, in context:A Business Wire report on the European IT Forum 1995, sponsored by market-research company International Data Corp., includes a segment on a presentation by Michael Zisman, a vice president with Lotus Development Corp.: ”The success of electronic mail has caused a bottleneck that can only be freed by a new approach to how we send and manage messages, Michael Zisman … told attendees. E-mail so far has been characterized by a ‘pull’ or ‘push’ approach, he asserted, in which the sender either bombards recipients with mail, or as in the cast of Lotus Notes, posts messages to a database and hopes people will read them … [Zisman forecasted] that Web browsers [will] eventually be built into most applications instead of run as stand-alone applications as they typically are today.”
Biography:Michael Zisman was a vice president with Lotus Development Corp. (Technology Administrator/Developer.)
Date of prediction: September 5, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Name of publication: Business Wire
Title, headline, chapter name: Ellison, Gates Jockey for Position on Info Highway at IDC’s European IT Forum
Quote Type: Paraphrase
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