Gore’s father was instrumental in building (real) highways which changed our society in good ways and bad, [giving us suburbs and congested inner cities, as well as incredible mobility]. There’s every reason to believe the information highways will do the same thing.
Predictor: Farber, David J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The San Francisco Examiner, Tom Abate quotes David Farber. Abate writes: ”David Farber, a communications scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, said electronic highways would be on par with asphalt roadways as engines of social change. ‘Vice President Gore’s father was instrumental in building (real) highways which changed our society in good ways and bad,’ Farber said, giving us suburbs and congested inner cities, as well as incredible mobility. ‘There’s every reason to believe the information highways will do the same thing,’ he said.”
Biography:David Farber was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for lifelong contributions to the computer communications field. He has worked at the University of Pennsylvania, managing research in high-speed networking. In 2000, he served as chief technologist at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He also directed the Center for Communications and Information Sciences and Policy. In 1997, Upside magazine named him one of its Elite 100 visionaries of high-tech. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: February 21, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: San Francisco Examiner
Title, headline, chapter name: Data Superhighway: ‘Very Scary’; AAAS: Science in a Changing World; Everyone is in Favor of it, But No One Knows What it is
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Goodrich, Barbara J.