Because we are broadening the community of those using the network, the fixed costs of national networking will be more widely distributed. This will free up funds which could then be allocated to assist the neediest organizations to connect to the national network, as well as to continue to support and enable the national network to remain in the vanguard of new technology.
Predictor: Weis, Allan H.
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for The Whole Earth Review, a quarterly magazine of access to tools and ideas, Roger Karraker discusses the Internet. He quotes Alan Weis of ANS. Karraker writes: ”Last September IBM and MCI, who already operate NSFNET under contract, proposed to build a ‘private Internet’ backbone that would require less governmental funding, but would involve user fees. Advanced Network Services, the IBM/MCI non-profit joint venture, would build and operate the network. The benefit, as IBM exec Allan H. Weis, president/chief executive officer of ANS, puts it, is ‘Because we are broadening the community of those using the network, the fixed costs of national networking will be more widely distributed. This will free up funds which could then be allocated to assist the neediest organizations to connect to the national network, as well as to continue to support and enable the national network to remain in the vanguard of new technology.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Universal Service
Name of publication: Whole earth Revue
Title, headline, chapter name: Highways of the Mind or Toll Roads Between Information Castles?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/hiways_of_mind.article
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry