[1994] will be the biggest year in telecommunications history.
Predictor: Boucher, Rick
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for BusinessWeek, writer John Carey addresses U.S. policy and quotes Rick Boucher. Carey writes: ”If past is prologue, the predominant uses will differ considerably from those being hyped today – the 500 channels of entertainment, virtual vacations and electronic newspapers … There will also be thorny public-policy decisions, such as ensuring everyone has access to the networks and balancing the conflicting demands of privacy and law enforcement … The administration gets high marks for making the NII [National Information Infrastructure] a top priority. Meanwhile, the normally tortoiselike Congress is racing like a March hare to pass sweeping legislation by summer’s end. ‘This [1994] will be the biggest year in telecommunications history,’ predicts Representative Rick Boucher (D-Va.).”
Biography:Rick Boucher was a U.S. Congressman who backed the amendment that allowed the National Science Foundation to support computer networks and opened the floodgates of digital commerce in the early 1990s. (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: BusinessWeek
Title, headline, chapter name: From Internet to Infobahn
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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