The enormous network of fiber-optic cable and sophisticated switches should be built by the government.
Predictor: Long-Distance Phone Companies
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 New York Times article, John Markoff writes about the position taken by the nation’s initial telephony big-shots in the planning for the information superhighway: ”Amid all the sweetness and light at Bill Clinton’s seminar on the economy last month came a not-so-harmonious exchange between Robert E. Allen, chief executive at AT&T, and Al Gore, then vice president-elect. The topic was the development of Mr. Clinton’s No. 1 priority for improving the country’s infrastructure: a national ‘superhighway’ for data … Mr. Gore said the enormous network of fiber-optic cable and sophisticated switches should be built by the government. Mr. Allen disagreed. ‘I was hoping we’d have one disagreement before lunch,’ Mr. Clinton quipped.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Electronic Superhighway
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=06df318c7c877e4f99b4d681fd5d7d8a&_docnum=11&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=fe0727c350edc2a7ea67660126e27835
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