If the federal government sets out to build a high-speed digital infrastructure, that will be a kind of competitive spur. You will have competition between private and public sectors, and that would be a wonderful thing for the infrastructure.
Predictor: Perritt, Henry H.
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 New York Times article, John Markoff reports on the proposed information superhighway and quotes Henry Perritt, a law professor and member of Bill Clinton’s presidential transition team on telecommunications issues. Markoff writes: ”Henry H. Perritt Jr., a member of the Clinton Administration transition team on telecommunications issues and a law professor at Villanova University Law School, thinks that a plan [for the information superhighway] will emerge quickly, perhaps in 100 to 200 days. But he suggested that the government would play an active role in building a data superhighway. ‘I think the telecommunications industry is not moving very rapidly,’ Mr. Perritt said. ‘If the federal government sets out to build a high-speed digital infrastructure, that will be a kind of competitive spur. You will have competition between private and public sectors, and that would be a wonderful thing for the infrastructure.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Electronic Superhighway
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=06df318c7c877e4f99b4d681fd5d7d8a&_docnum=11&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=fe0727c350edc2a7ea67660126e27835
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