New bandwidth is very cheap. People have been saying the Net will grind to a halt, first because of newsgroups, then video, then advertising, but it simply hasn’t happened.
Predictor: Weitzner, Daniel J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in CQ Researcher, Charles Clark talks with Daniel J. Weitzner, deputy director of the Center for Technology and Democracy. Clark writes: ”Fears of Internet traffic jams are also dismissed as solvable by technology. ‘New bandwidth is very cheap,’ says Weitzner. ‘People have been saying the Net will grind to a halt, first because of newsgroups, then video, then advertising, but it simply hasn’t happened.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: CQ Researcher
Title, headline, chapter name: Regulating the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/search.php
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty