While entertainment applications will drive the connection of homes to the National Information Infrastructure, Vice President [Al] Gore has set the additional ambitious challenge of interconnecting all the schools and libraries by the turn of the century.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993 recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”While entertainment applications will drive the connection of homes to the National Information Infrastructure, Vice President [Al] Gore has set the additional ambitious challenge of interconnecting all the schools and libraries by the turn of the century.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: 2. Future Scenarios: National Challenge Applications Capabilities 2.1 Introduction
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
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