Blending our actual telephones and televisions will surely require a lot more than FCC approval. The video side of the information superhighway is a one-way street and will remain so for a long time – even if interactive boxes do someday let us send a few bytes worth of nay votes up the line toward Geraldo.
Predictor: Gleick, James
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 New York Times article, writer George Johnson quotes James Gleick. Johnson writes: ”Someday, the visionaries tell us, we will be able to communicate with just about anybody by sending an electronic message; no matter where they are, the bundle of bits will find them … someday perhaps, but not yet … when we asked four writers to give us their visions of the information future, the science writer James Gleick communicated with us entirely through the Internet … [Gleick said:] ‘Telephone companies and cable-television companies may not be able to keep their hands off each other, but blending our actual telephones and televisions will surely require a lot more than FCC approval. The video side of the information superhighway is a one-way street and will remain so for a long time – even if interactive boxes do someday let us send a few bytes worth of nay votes up the line toward Geraldo.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: We Are the Wired: Some Views On the Fiberoptic Ties That Bind
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=2a36a194c9a458e14d8de9643883255d&_docnum=4&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlAl&_md5=75e1bac47fdc16cf2dea2332a2db34a9
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