The prediction, in brief:

To function in a distributed/decentralized environment, client-server or peer-to-peer, organizations must develop an Information Constitution … to avoid bickering about whom and to whom information and responsibility rest.

Predictor: Strassmann, Paul

Prediction, in context:

In a 1994 article for Information Today, Lois Lunin reports on the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) ’93 Conference, held Nov. 24-28 in Columbus, Ohio, quoting Paul Strassmann, a professor of information management at West Point. Lunin writes:”To function in a distributed/decentralized environment, client-server or peer-to-peer, organizations must develop an Information Constitution, Strassman advises, to avoid bickering about whom and to whom information and responsibility rest. A corporate Bill of Rights is needed – what’s retained and what’s delegated. Without this document, the Information Society of the future will, he says, be marred and slowed. The fundamental principle calls for stability at the Federal level, not a change every time an administration changes, he added.”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1993

Topic of prediction: Community/Culture

Subtopic: Ethics/Values

Name of publication: Information Today

Title, headline, chapter name: Puppets, Verbings, and Serious Reflections at ASIS ’93

Quote Type: Paraphrase

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 11, Issue 1, Page 13ISSN: 87556286

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Vellucci, Amanda