The increase in capabilities will make possible an overall shift from electronic-mail exchange and modest file-transfer activities to online distribution of large volumes of data (both measured and modeled), fueling in turn continued rapid growth in scientific researchers’ demands for network services.
Predictor: National Research Council
Prediction, in context:In 1994, the NRENaissance Committee, appointed by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, produced a special report titled “Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.” Among the committee members were Internet pioneers Leonard Kleinrock, David Clark, David Farber, Lawrence Landweber and Robert Kahn. The committee’s goal was to “study issues raised by the shift to a larger, more truly national networking capability.” Among its statements about the blossoming of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) is this: ”The increase in capabilities will make possible an overall shift from electronic-mail exchange and modest file-transfer activities to online distribution of large volumes of data (both measured and modeled), fueling in turn continued rapid growth in scientific researchers’ demands for network services.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Research
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney