People on the Internet are talking as if they are Native Americans, and the Pilgrims are on the shore. They think of this as an Edenic environment, a garden, and [they] hear over the horizon the combines coming to harvest its fruits for commercial purposes.
Predictor: Peters, Paul E.
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Fortune magazine, Thomas Stewart writes about the networked future, quoting Paul Peters of the Coalition for Networked Information. Stewart writes: ”More and more the network is open to newcomers. And coming they are. Says Paul E. Peters, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, a Washington, D.C., group that represents primarily research libraries: “People on the Internet are talking as if they are Native Americans, and the Pilgrims are on the shore. They think of this as an Edenic environment, a garden, and [they] hear over the horizon the combines coming to harvest its fruits for commercial purposes.”
Biography:Paul Evan Peters was executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Fortune
Title, headline, chapter name: Boom Time on the New Frontier
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty