Content is the key to national security and national competitiveness … We must make available to each citizen the richest possible information commons. National intelligence is the empowerment of the individual citizen … In the Information Age, national intelligence will either be put in the service of the citizen and in the context of private-sector information capabilities that are unclassified, or it will be slowly and painfully eliminated from the budget of the nation.
Predictor: Steele, Robert
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Robert Steele, an 18-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community, writes: ”Content is the key to national security and national competitiveness. The national information continuum consists of nine major sectors of society that both produce and consume information: grades K-12, universities, libraries, businesses, private investigators and information brokers, media, government, defense, and intelligence. Right now there are curtains between sectors, curtains between institutions within those sectors, and curtains between individuals within those institutions. Our highest priority as a nation should be to break down these barriers. More importantly, we must make available to each citizen the richest possible information commons. National intelligence is the empowerment of the individual citizen. With the passing of the Cold War the national intelligence community as it once existed has lost its mandate and its mystique. In the Information Age, national intelligence will either be put in the service of the citizen and in the context of private sector information capabilities that are unclassified, or it will be slowly and painfully eliminated from the budget of the nation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Is National Intelligence an Oxymoron?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/idees.fortes2_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney