The ability to transcend geographical, cultural and political boundaries, as well as barriers of race, gender, age and handicap, unleashes a potential for understanding and cooperation that perhaps has never been possible on this scale before … The ability to promote and nurture community and partnership which transcends all sorts of boundaries can yield enormous benefits.
Predictor: Bulashova, Natasha
Prediction, in context:Natasha Bulashova and Greg Cole made the following remark in a paper they presented at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Bulashova was director of the office of grants and research development in the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in the Russian Academy of Science in the Pushchino region near Moscow. Cole was director of the Office of Research Services at the University of Tennessee. They spoke of the success of the “Friends and Partners” Internet-based information system jointly operated by people in the U.S. and Russia in order to foster community, saying: ”The ability to transcend geographical, cultural and political boundaries, as well as barriers of race, gender, age and handicap, unleashes a potential for understanding and cooperation that perhaps has never been possible on this scale before … The ability to promote and nurture community and partnership which transcends all sorts of boundaries can yield enormous benefits.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Creating a Smaller World
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Friends and Partners: Building Global Community on the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/148/html/paper.html
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