We need to go beyond literacy and computer literacy to “information literacy” … How can we take literacy to the next level so we can use it?
Predictor: Hayes, Dennis
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer Reseller News, Ken Yamada talks with Dennis Hayes. Yamada writes: ”The information highway requires people to think in new ways about computers, information and literacy, Hayes said. Education will be key. People will need to be taught how best to use and benefit from the power available to them. ‘We need to go beyond literacy and computer literacy to ‘information literacy,”’ Hayes said. ‘How can we take literacy to the next level so we can use it?'”
Biography:Dennis Hayes, served as chairman of the U.S. Internet Industry Association, the primary North American trade association for Internet commerce, content and connectivity. In 1977, he developed the core technology for the Hayes asynchronous modem, the device that enabled computers to communicate with one another across common telephone lines. This device for the first time put computer communications within the reach of ordinary families. It created the means for online services to develop Ð from the early services like CompuServe, to the bulletin board systems of the early ’90s. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Computer Reseller News
Title, headline, chapter name: Defining Roadblacks: Navagating the Information Superhighway
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com.pqdweb?Did=000000001373709&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=9...
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Harrison, Nichelle N.