If the Internet is commercialized and privatized, having to pay for network access and services may radically change the behavior of many end users.
Predictor: Rosenbaum, Howard
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for the International Journal of Information Management, Howard Rosenbaum and Blaise Cronin cover e-commerce. They write: ”If the Internet is commercialized and privatized, having to pay for network access and services may radically change the behavior of many end users who currently treat Internet access as a right similar to their right to drive on the nation’s interstate highways, especially those roads without tolls.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: International Journal of Information Management
Title, headline, chapter name: Digital Entrepreneurship: Doing Business on the Information Superhighway
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 461
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty