The key to the success of Internet is that it was invented by its users … It is essential that as the NII develops, federal regulation must not deny new styles of networking and new kinds of applications. It is not clear that a commercial-entertainment-driven NII will be able to offer such a flexible environment for innovation.
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 an environment for innovative new uses of networking: The key to the success of Internet is that it was invented by its users … It is essential that as the NII develops, federal regulation must not deny new styles of networking and new kinds of applications. It is not clear that a commercial-entertainment-driven NII will be able to offer such a flexible environment for innovation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
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:
Pages 30, 31
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne