The notion that technology is just some sort of snake that’s slithering along, and it should go wherever it likes, wherever the brain trust is going to let that go, without a realization that there’s public policy issues here – public safety issues here – is I think a very naive approach.
Predictor: Kallstrom, Jim
Prediction, in context:As a member of a special panel at a policy debate on the Clipper Chip sponsored in January 1995 by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Jim Kallstrom, special agent in charge of the Special Operations Division of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said: ”The notion that technology is just some sort of snake that’s slithering along, and it should go wherever it likes, wherever the brain trust is going to let that go, without a realization that there’s public policy issues here – public safety issues here – is I think a very naive approach.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Panel Discussion on the Clipper Chip
Title, headline, chapter name: The Clipper Chip: Should the Government Control the Master Keys to Electronic Commerce?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/clipper/ny-debate-jan-19-95.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney