Elon University
The prediction, in brief:

The economies of all the different countries and all the divisions within a country because of the Net and global trade and less tariffs and television will become so dependent on one another that no one will be able to afford to make war anymore or to fight on a large scale, and it will become unthinkable.

Predictor: Hahn, Harley

Prediction, in context:

Harley Hahn made the following remarks in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”Now, I don’t mean this on a personal level. You’ll still be fighting with the person next door. I mean that countries will start to get along. I mean that the economies of all the different countries and all the divisions within a country because of the Net and global trade and less tariffs and television will become so dependent on one another that no one will be able to afford to make war anymore or to fight on a large scale, and it will become unthinkable.”

Biography:

Harley Hahn was a technology author, analyst and consultant and a prolific writer of books about computers and the Internet in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)

Date of prediction: October 1, 1993

Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics

Subtopic: General

Name of publication: Voices From the Net

Title, headline, chapter name: Harley Hahn: Author

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp000317.txt

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney