The best schools, teachers and courses would be available to all students, without regard to geography, distance, resources or disability. Services that improve America’s health care system and respond to other important social needs could be available online, without waiting in line, and where you needed them.
Predictor: National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Prediction, in context:Three specific goals were articulated in “Agenda for Action 3,” a 1993 report issued by the Clinton White House’s communications agency, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration:”People could live almost anywhere they wanted, without foregoing opportunities for useful and fulfilling employment, by ‘telecommuting’ to their offices through an electronic highway. The best schools, teachers and courses would be available to all students, without regard to geography, distance, resources or disability. Services that improve America’s health care system and respond to other important social needs could be available online, without waiting in line, and where you needed them.”
Date of prediction: September 15, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action 3
Title, headline, chapter name: Agenda for Action 3
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.nyls.edu/cmc/papers/us-nii.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney