If children’s needs are to be met, the information revolution cannot be seen as just another way to make money; a major priority must be to give all schools the new information technology.
Predictor: Hundt, Reed
Prediction, in context:A 1995 article for the Annenberg Washington Program Update from Northwestern University’s Communications Policy Studies program quotes Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The article says: ”‘There really isn’t anything more important in communications than children’s issues – and there isn’t anything as underdiscussed,’ said Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in the keynote address. Hundt stressed that if children’s needs are to be met, the information revolution cannot be seen as just another way to make money; a major priority must be to give all schools the new information technology.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Annenberg Washington Program: Update
Title, headline, chapter name: America’s Children & The Information Superhighway; May 25, 1995, Washington
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.annenberg.nwu.edu/events/up6795.pdf
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney