As the fatter pipe or thicker connection that facilitates broadband interactivity is deployed everywhere in the U.S., it should be deployed in the classrooms as part of the first stage, not the last stage. For kids in the classrooms, the real connection to broadband interactive services is, I believe, going to be related to the greatest revolution in the history of education since the development of the printing press.
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 the positive future benefits of the “information superhighway” offering “universal” service:”When I talk about connecting all the classrooms in the schools to the information highway, I would like phone lines in those classrooms as soon as possible – the day after tomorrow. But I also agree that as the fatter pipe or thicker connection that facilitates broadband interactivity is deployed everywhere in the U.S., it should be deployed in the classrooms as part of the first stage, not the last stage. For kids in the classrooms, the real connection to broadband interactive services is, I believe, going to be related to the greatest revolution in the history of education since the development of the printing press.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
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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