A set of service packages with different flat fees and corresponding different levels of service covered by the fee would be desirable. This would allow users to be differentiated according to need, so that a person who wants to send video will pay more than a person who sends only electronic (text) mail.
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: ”A set of service packages with different flat fees and corresponding different levels of service covered by the fee would be desirable. This would allow users to be differentiated according to need, so that a person who wants to send video will pay more than a person who sends only electronic (text) mail … a proliferation of users, capabilities, and services (both current and anticipated) suggest a need for several pricing packages, not just two.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Paying the Price
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