The prediction, in brief:

If you’re not an active Internet citizen by the mid-1990s, you’re likely to be out of business by the year 2000.

Predictor: Seybold, Patricia

Prediction, in context:

In a 1994 article for The New York Times, Peter Lewis talks with Patricia Seybold about businesses and the Internet. Lewis writes:”The Internet, a global web of computer networks, has become a hothouse for business growth. Hundreds of companies, from international giants to small businesses … are linking with the Internet each month in the belief that cyberspace holds new customers, new profits and fundamentally new ways of doing business. Other companies are signing up not so much because they have a vision for the future as from a fear of being left behind. Their concern is fueled by comments from computer consultants like Patricia Seybold, who proclaimed recently in Computerworld, an industry newspaper: ‘If you’re not an active Internet citizen by the mid-1990s, you’re likely to be out of business by the year 2000.'”

Date of prediction: June 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Economic structures

Subtopic: E-commerce

Name of publication: New York Times

Title, headline, chapter name: Getting Down to Business on the Net

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=2d555ca3bdfd807323c0b76a4946758f&_docnum=15&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=0ec888e2dc3412a56a2f5466b967eee0

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Pagano, Shawna