The prediction, in brief:

Introducing regulated prices would likely skew competition between platform technologies and create disincentives for investment and innovation … To maintain the growing usage and usefulness of the network and to fulfill the visions of connectedness … will require the adoption of new operating regimes and systems. These will include new access methods, pricing schemes, and network architecture.

Predictor: Keller, James

Prediction, in context:

The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Public Access Issues: An Introduction” by Keller, a research associate and coordinator of the Information Infrastruture Project at Harvard University. He writes:”Introducing regulated prices would likely skew competition between platform technologies and create disincentives for investment and innovation … To maintain the growing usage and usefulness of the network and to fulfill the visions of connectedness … will require the adoption of new operating regimes and systems. These will include new access methods, pricing schemes, and network architecture.”

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: Public Access Issues: An Introduction

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 44, 45

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne