If completed, [NREN] would raise the capacity of the Internet to more than 3 billion bits – the equivalent of 300 copies of “Moby Dick” – per second, up from 45 million bits, the capacity of the current backbone of Internet.
Predictor: Perritt, Henry H.
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 New York Times article, John Markoff reports on the proposed information superhighway and quotes Henry Perritt, a law professor and member of Bill Clinton’s presidential transition team on telecommunications issues. Markoff writes: ”The kind of government-industry cooperation that Mr. Gore envisions can perhaps best be seen in legislation he pushed through Congress two years ago as a Senator. Called the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, it authorized $2.9 billion in financing over five years for the development of a National Research and Education Network (NREN). If completed, that network would raise the capacity of the Internet to more than 3 billion bits – the equivalent of 300 copies of ‘Moby Dick’ – per second, up from 45 million bits, the capacity of the current backbone of Internet. Today, the NREN projects consist of five federally financed ‘testbed’ centers where industry and university researchers are developing technologies for a data superhighway.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Electronic Superhighway
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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