The technology offers the opportunity for group facilitators and information brokers to be able to sell their talents … We have the opportunity for new human roles in the process of group efforts and in synthesizing information resources. In order to realize such a potential, software has to be designed and implemented which provides individuals the ability to take on coordination and regulation roles in a group process … There is a host of new professional jobs possible in this environment and it is impossible to predict them all at this time.
Predictor: Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 paper they presented at a workshop titled “Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities” for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, researchers Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff say: ”The technology offers the opportunity for group facilitators and information brokers to be able to sell their talents. In the process of facilitating groups and their ability to obtain information, we have the opportunity for new human roles in the process of group efforts and in synthesizing information resources. In order to realize such a potential, software has to be designed and implemented which provides individuals the ability to take on coordination and regulation roles in a group process. Network providers have to establish these capabilities in their service offerings to allow this to take place. There is a host of new professional jobs possible in this environment and it is impossible to predict them all at this time.”
Biography:Starr Roxanne Hiltz, the co-author of a seminal book about the electronic frontier, “The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer” (MIT Press), was a professor of computer and information science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of many Internet research studies. In 1994, Hiltz received the “Pioneer Award” from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her “significant and influential contributions to computer-based communications and to the empowerment of individuals using computers.” She was among the first to note that computer conferencing could form the basis of new kinds of communities. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Employment
Name of publication: Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities Computer science and Telecommunications Board National Research Council (NRC)
Title, headline, chapter name: A Normative View of Networking Applications
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/dcgov.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney