The prediction, in brief:

A new industry is being created in America. We are beginning to create massive Data Libraries …. No one place will contain the information. Rather all information sources are being made available in electronic form through the Internet.

Predictor: Lyell, Ed

Prediction, in context:

In a speech he delivered at the summer training program for New York State Deans of Education at Bank Street College in 1994, Ed Lyell outlines a new educational plan in which the use of the Internet is key. He says:”A new industry is being created in America. We are beginning to create massive Data Libraries. These contain all the books, drawings, videotapes, audiotapes, lesson plans, experiments, and other ways of storing information. Whereas five years ago it might have been a college or neighborhood library, now it is an electronic data source of limitless capability. No one place will contain the information. Rather all information sources are being made available in electronic form through the Internet. The Library of Congress, vast as it is, becomes but one small source of information. Private firms control vast data sources, including the collections of journals at Dialogue, the movies at Disney and TNT, the space information at NASA.” 

Biography:

Ed Lyell was an educator and education administrator who foresaw uses for the Internet in schools and became a popular public speaker on the topic. (Futurist/Consultant.)

Date of prediction: June 11, 1994

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: Libraries/Databases

Name of publication: Technology in Context

Title, headline, chapter name: Creating the Just-in-Time Learning System: Merging High Tech with High Touch

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://faculty.adams.edu/~ehlyell/Articles/BANKSTre.ART.htm

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: McAlister, Rory