Senator Daniel Inouye introduced a bill … calling for a “public lane” on the infobahn. It would reserve up to 20 percent of the capacity of new advanced telecommunications networks, such as 500-channel cable into homes, for “non-commercial educational and informational services and civic discourse.”
Predictor: Inouye, Daniel
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The Guardian, a London-based newspaper, technology commentator Mike Holderness quotes U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye (Hawaii). Holderness writes: ”Last week (June 20, 1994), Senator Daniel Inouye introduced a bill to the U.S. Congress, supported by the lobbying group Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, calling for a ‘public lane’ on the infobahn. It would reserve up to 20 percent of the capacity of new advanced telecommunications networks, such as 500-channel cable into homes, for ‘non-commercial educational and informational services and civic discourse.'”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Open Access
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: Paraphrase
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