[While the Information Superhighway is a bad name, it could be a great acronym, standing for] Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing, And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos.
Predictor: Kwaku, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a July 1994 column for PC World, Don Willmont quotes a reader response to a request he had printed asking for alternative names for the “information highway.” Kevin Kwaku came up with a use for Information Superhighway as an acronym. Willmont writes: ”We asked you to help us rename the Information Highway, and boy, did you ever! … The winner is Kevin Kwaku, who suggested that while the Information Superhighway is a bad name, it could be a great acronym, standing for ‘Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing, And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: PC World
Title, headline, chapter name: Abort, Retry, Fail: Renaming the Info Highway
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/IH8PCs/vol1/V1N2.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney