The global Internet will soon be the commercial information highway for the entire planet; the National Information Infrastructure will soon be the national information highway system, with all the economic potential our national railway and highway systems brought to communities a century ago. Each community must assess the benefits of network access against the cost for both the infrastructure and the community “learning-curve” challenges.
Predictor: Odasz, Frank
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks” by Frank Odasz, the director of Big Sky Telegraph, Western Montana College of the University of Montana. He writes: ”The global Internet will soon be the commercial information highway for the entire planet; the National Information Infrastructure will soon be the national information highway system, with all the economic potential our national railway and highway systems brought to communities a century ago. Each community must assess the benefits of network access against the cost for both the infrastructure and the community ‘learning-curve’ challenges.”
Biography:Frank Odasz was an assistant professor of computing education at the University of Colorado and the director of Big Sky Telegraph, a popular community network of the time. He was widely known as a speaker on community networking and educational technologies. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 128
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne