Actual costs of information sharing, as demonstrated in non-profit bulletin boards and “gopher” services, for example, can be exceedingly low, and does not require a market incentive … We must distinguish between the price of information and price of access.
Predictor: Branscomb, Lewis M.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII” by Lewis Branscomb, director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University and principal investigator of the Information Infrastructure Project. Branscomb writes: ”Preserving the very low cost of information sharing: Actual cost of information sharing, as demonstrated in non-profit bulletin boards and ‘gopher’ services, for example, can be exceedingly low, and does not require a market incentive … We must distinguish between the price of information and price of access.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 30
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne