TVs will become Web browsers, and PCs will be TVs, and there will be a pitched battle over whether the TV as we know it survives. The PC could blow it away. The PC is a consumer TV and a consumer computing device.
Predictor: Clark, Jim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Network Computing magazine, a number of Internet pioneers and administrators were asked for their predictions for the year 2000. James Clark, Netscape CEO, comments: ”TVs will become Web browsers, and PCs will be TVs, and there will be a pitched battle over whether the TV as we know it survives. The PC could blow it away. The PC is a consumer TV and a consumer computing device.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Millennium Prophesies
Quote Type: Direct quote
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Edwards, Elizabeth