In all likelihood what will happen, and what we think ought to happen [is that government will provide funds to schools] to buy access the same way you buy a telephone line. It will take 20 years to wire the whole country with fiber, and you could do this very soon.
Predictor: Weitzner, Daniel J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Boston Globe, Charles Radin quotes Daniel Weitzner. Radin writes:”‘Gore talks about building a fiber-optic network to schools,’ says Daniel Weitzner of the Washington-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology-development advocacy group, ‘but in all likelihood what will happen, and what we think ought to happen’ is that government will provide funds to schools ‘to buy access the same way you buy a telephone line. It will take 20 years to wire the whole country with fiber, and you could do this very soon.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: U.S. Data Highway Gathers Speed;Rules of Road Eyed for Computer Network
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: Garrison, Betty