You have to imagine that this kind of reaching out from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, at your fingertips, has got to change the way we think about our world … It will become critical for everyone to be connected. Anyone who doesn’t will essentially be isolated from the world.
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for The Boston Globe, Charles Radin quotes Vinton Cerf. He writes: ”Vinton Cerf, co-designer of the Internet and now president of the non-profit Internet Society, predicts there will be more than 100 million Internet users by the end of the decade. ‘You have to imagine that this kind of reaching out from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, at your fingertips, has got to change the way we think about our world,’ Cerf said … ‘It will become critical for everyone to be connected. Anyone who doesn’t will essentially be isolated from the world,’ Cerf said.”
Date of prediction: January 2, 1993
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Digital Divide
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: 20 Million Drive the Information Highway; It’s Time to Open the Internet to Every Computer User, Planners Say
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=2592a235acf329142c1c3ed7a7aaa201...
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