Electronic communities will revolutionize “how people interact with information.” … The communities will create a new way for scientists to record and share information and insights … This linkage ability, Schatz predicts, will turn computer networks into something much more than the high-powered library and communications systems they are today.
Predictor: Schatz, Bruce R.
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article in Science, information scientist Bruce Schatz shares his vision of the future. The article says: ”It is impossible to predict what shape the future will take, but if the computer gurus are correct, at least one forecast can be made with confidence: Over the next decade or two, ‘electronic communities’ … will spring up, linking scientists much more elusely than ever before with information, instruments, and far flung coIleagues. ‘There is genuinely a revolution here,’ says Bruce Schatz, an information scientist at the University of Illinois. ‘Life is going to be completely different.’ … Eventually, predicts Schatz, such electronic communities will revolutionize ‘how people interact with information.’ … The communities will create a new way for scientists to record and share information and insights … This linkage ability, Schatz predicts, will turn computer networks into something much more than the high-powered library and communications systems they are today.”
Date of prediction: August 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: Science
Title, headline, chapter name: Beyond E-mail and Databases
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.cansis.uiuc.edu/news/science_8_93.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Strickland, Amanda M.