By the mid-1990s, people can be expected to view personal computers as knowledge sources rather than as knowledge processors … gateways to vast amounts of knowledge and information.
Predictor: Tennant, Harry
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Net as a Social Technology” by Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj. Sproull was a professor of management at Boston University and has done research on electronic groups that was sponsored by the Markle Foundation. Faraj was a doctoral student in MIS at Boston University. In this passage, they paraphrase part of Harry Tennant and George H. Heilmeier’s 1991 article “Harnessing the Tides of Information Abundance” which was printed in the book “Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications,” edited by Derek Leebaert. They write:”By the mid-1990s, people can be expected to view personal computers as knowledge sources rather than as knowledge processors … gateways to vast amounts of knowledge and information.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Net as a Social Technology
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 63
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne