To some extent, it’s a “Field of Dreams” business plan – if we build it, they’ll come. We’re not really sure.
Predictor: Boggs, Timothy
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, reporter Keith Epstein quotes Time-Warner executive Timothy Boggs. Epstein writes: ”Too high a toll, and too hard to navigate? That’s death to any superhighway. ‘To some extent, it’s a ‘Field of Dreams’ business plan – if we build it, they’ll come,’ confides Timothy Boggs, a Time-Warner vice president. ‘We’re not really sure.'”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Title, headline, chapter name: Basic Questions Dog Electronic Road
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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