The Net represents the most important new effort to expand democracy into a wide range of human endeavors … usage pricing could extinguish list-servers.
Predictor: Taxpayer Asset Project
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The Guardian, a London-based newspaper, technology commentator Mike Holderness writes: ”The Net ‘represents the most important new effort to expand democracy into a wide range of human endeavors,’ the Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayer Asset Project says in its call to resist metered use of the U.S. infobahn … The TAP says that usage pricing could extinguish list-servers, which work like 18th century corresponding societies but rather faster, redistributing messages to hundreds or thousands of subscribers.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: Guardian (London)
Title, headline, chapter name: High Anxiety for Hitchhikers on the Infobahn: Just as Millions Outside the Groves of Academe Discover the Joys of Essentially Free Global Communications on the Internet, it’s All Changing
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/gdn-netb.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney