Increased commercial involvement would reduce costs to users through “increased competition and orders of efficiency.” … Government will work better in cyberspace. Cybrarians’ will work faster, better and cheaper and could have budgetary impact on governments’ operations.
Predictor: Rutkowski, Anthony Michael
Prediction, in context:A remark Anthony Rutkowski, then the executive director of the Internet Society, makes about the Clinton-administration-favored Clipper Chip for encryption security at a seminar at ITU headquarters in 1994 is quoted in a 1994 article for Communications Daily. The article says: ”The success of the Internet can be credited to limited government interference, especially regulatory, Rutkowski said in praise of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s ‘hands-off’ approach. ‘Seed money’ from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which maintains the first and largest Internet backbone, ‘disappears at the end of the year,’ he said. ‘Subsidized backbones are going away.’ But he added that increased commercial involvement would reduce costs to users through ‘increased competition and orders of efficiency.’ He said the volume of information traffic on Internet ‘will have a profound affect’ on governments and international organizations that ‘we don’t fully appreciate or understand,’ adding ‘government will work better in cyberspace.’ He made the point that ‘cybrarians’ will work faster, better and cheaper and could have budgetary impact on governments’ operations.”
Biography:Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski was a lawyer and engineer who was an executive director of the Internet Society during some key years of development in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: June 14, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Communications Daily
Title, headline, chapter name: Clipper Chip Doomed? It’s ‘Hopeless’ to Try to Control Encrypted Internet Traffic, ITU is Told
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 14, No. 114; Page 2
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Smith, Ian T.