Internet is not used primarily for point to point communication; the sharing of information is a key value … There is a form of knowledge externality in knowledge sharing. There is a selflessness in the way people in the “Internet Culture” voluntarily collect and share information.
Predictor: Branscomb, Lewis M.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII” by Lewis Branscomb, director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University and principal investigator of the Information Infrastructure Project. Branscomb writes: ”The collective value attribute of Internet: Internet is not used primarily for point to point communication; the sharing of information is a key value … There is a form of knowledge externality in knowledge sharing. There is a selflessness in the way people in the ‘Internet Culture’ voluntarily collect and share information.”
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: Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 30
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne