It is absolutely essential that the information highway be connected to every classroom and every clinic and every library in the country as soon as practical. Being on the information highway is the only way to participate fully in our economy. It is going to be essential for virtually all Americans. I want us to have a policy of connecting all classrooms for the beginning of any installation of broadband interactive services.
Predictor: Hundt, Reed
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, John Heilemann, Washington correspondent for The Economist, interviews Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt. Hundt tells Heilemann about his vision of the “information superhighway”: ”What I can’t tell you is what the percentage of the country will be that is reached by that competition [to build the information infrastructure in an open system]. I can only tell you it will be a much greater percentage than would be reached if we didn’t have a competitive policy. So, we have to wait for the out-years to get the facts. That’s point one about my policy on universal service. Here’s point two: notwithstanding all of the above, I think it is absolutely essential that the information highway be connected to every classroom and every clinic and every library in the country as soon as practical. Being on the information highway is the only way to participate fully in our economy. It is going to be essential for virtually all Americans. I want us to have a policy of connecting all classrooms for the beginning of any installation of broadband interactive services.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Read Hundt: Wired Asks the Chair of the FCC About Cutting Cable Rates and Competition, Censoring Howard Stern, and John Malone’s Suggestion That He Be Taken Out and Shot
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/hundt_pr.html
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