For decades, publishers and commercial information services providers also have been exploring ways to create, produce, and deliver information over networks … Controls on access and use are very important to these businesses, as is the ability to charge for access and use. Funding for the digitization and electronic supply of noncommercial materials is an ongoing concern facing both publishers and consumers of those materials in the research and education communities.
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:”For decades, publishers and commercial information services providers also have been exploring ways to create, produce, and deliver information over networks; their activities have included the development of abstracting services, provision of rapid access to news relevant to businesses, and value-added delivery of legal and financial information aimed at paying clienteles from industry as well as academic markets … Commercial markets relating to network-based delivery of information resources to the educational community are also being explored … Controls on access and use are very important to these businesses, as is the ability to charge for access and use. Funding for the digitization and electronic supply of noncommercial materials is an ongoing concern facing both publishers and consumers of those materials in the research and education communities.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Flow of Information
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