As the Net grows, there will be an increasing percentage of participants who have no prior experience with computer communications or Net culture, don’t know who they are talking to or where they are, and don’t have complete control over what they are doing. This will lead to more disputes.
Predictor: Johnson, David R.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 statement about the future of the Internet that is carried on the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, David R. Johnson, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and chairman of the EFF who helped draft the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, writes the first of 10 hypotheses on the Internet and law: ”As the Net grows, there will be an increasing percentage of participants who have no prior experience with computer communications or Net culture, don’t know who they are talking to or where they are, and don’t have complete control over what they are doing. This will lead to more disputes.”
Biography:David R. Johnson was the chairman of Counsel Connect and the co director of the Cyberspace Law Institute in the 1990s. (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction:
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Title, headline, chapter name: The Future of the Net – As it Pertains to Lawyers
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.eff.org/Legal/future_legal_net_johnson.article
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Fedders, Peter J.