Access to the Net will be a lot more like access to the telephone system and access to the postal system in that there will be providers, at least in the short term. It won’t be exactly like this, but it will be like cable TV, telephone, buying electricity, buying gas, putting stamps on a package to send something. I don’t know what exact form it will take, but I think that the government is going to get more and more out of the Net business and let private enterprise get more and more into the Net business.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remark in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net. ”But within the United States … the Net will become more commercial, and I think what we will start to see is that access to the Net will be a lot more like access to the telephone system and access to the postal system in that there will be providers, at least in the short term. It won’t be exactly like this, but it will be like cable TV, telephone, buying electricity, buying gas, putting stamps on a package to send something. I don’t know what exact form it will take, but I think that the government is going to get more and more out of the Net business and let private enterprise get more and more into the Net business.”
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: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
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
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