The theme of harnessing the physical infrastructure to improve the social infrastructure persists today. Community networks are a part of that thread. There have been some eloquent discussions recently about the issues associated with physical and virtual community. It is important to note that it is not an either/or choice. Virtual community can amplify the physical associations. On the common ground of the community network can be found, again, the sense of place that we all need.
Predictor: Klingenstein, Ken
Prediction, in context:Ken Klingenstein made the following statement in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s International Networking Conference, in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30, 1995. Klingenstein was director of computing and network services at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was also the prinicipal investigator on the Boulder Valley Internet Project and the Boulder Community Network. He had been chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, vice-president of Farnet and a member of the board of CAUSE. Klingenstein remarks: ”The Internet has always been composed of two elements – a physical switching network that operates at the bit and packet level and a social network that shares a common belief that the switching network could be a powerful tool of great benefit to our world. Clearly much of both the physical and the social fabric of the Internet has changed in the last 20 years. Yet threads persist, and the theme of harnessing the physical infrastructure to improve the social infrastructure persists today. Community networks are a part of that thread. There have been some eloquent discussions recently about the issues associated with physical and virtual community. It is important to note that it is not an either/or choice. Virtual community can amplify the physical associations. On the common ground of the community network can be found, again, the sense of place that we all need.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Common Ground: Community Networks as Catalysts
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/034/html/paper.html
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