A small-business man with a modest investment and a camcorder should be able to access the network to sell his wares. Or, if he wants, start his own version of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”
Predictor: Kapor, Mitchell
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for U.S. News & World Report, Jim Impoco talks with Mitch Kapor, the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Impoco writes: ”Kapor envisions an information highway that is more than just 500 channels of entertainment, video on demand and home shopping program, dominated by a handful of giant media conglomerates. What he wants is a digital network that is as diverse in content as the print medium: decentralized and open to all comers – a network in which anyone can be a producer as well as consumer. ‘A small-business man with a modest investment and a camcorder should be able to access the network to sell his wares,’ explains Kapor. ‘Or, if he wants, start his own version of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”‘
Biography:Mitchell Kapor founded the Lotus Development Corporation and also founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation with WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link) members John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore in 1990 in direct response to a threat to free speech. He was an outspoken supporter of open access to the Internet, and was asked to speak in many venues about the issue, including Congressional hearings. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: November 29, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Open Access
Name of publication: U.S. News & World Report
Title, headline, chapter name: The Digital Democrat
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web11.epnet.com/citation.asp?tb=1&_ug=dbs+0%2C1%2C2%2C3+ln+en%2Dus+sid+4350E799%2D2B2C%2D4188%2D8440%2DC41383A837A8%40Sessionmgr6+51F4&_us=bs+the++digital++democrat+ds+the++digital++democrat+dstb+KS+hd+0+hs+0+or+Date+ri+KAAACBTB00223523+sm+KS+so+b+ss+SO+7A60&cf=1&fn=1&rn=4
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