Content – information, entertainment and other services – is the commodity that will be bought, sold and traded along the information superhighway. News organizations are ideally suited to profit and prosper on the highway because they are, in effect, content factories. Newspapers, particularly, mint enormous quantities of high-quality content every day in the form of news stories. And because people will need old news to give perspectives to new news, newspaper libraries are mines of priceless info-ore waiting to be smelted into marketable, digital form.
Predictor: Freedom Forum
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “The Information Revolution,” edited by Donald Altschiller, carries a reprint of the May, 1994, Freedom Forum article “Information Superhighway,” by an unknown author or authors. The article reads:”Content – information, entertainment and other services – is the commodity that will be bought, sold and traded along the information superhighway. News organizations are ideally suited to profit and prosper on the highway because they are, in effect, content factories. Newspapers, particularly, mint enormous quantities of high-quality content every day in the form of news stories. And because people will need old news to give perspectives to new news, newspaper libraries are mines of priceless info-ore waiting to be smelted into marketable, digital form.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: The Information Revolution (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Information Superhighway
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 95
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