One of the things that’s essential is that the government continue to fund the Internet as a public trust, as a public facility and remove any of these ridiculous notions of privatizing it that have been brought up. I don’t think they’re going to fly, thankfully.
Predictor: Jobs, Steve
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 oral and video histories interview for the Smithsonian Institution, Daniel Morrow, executive director of The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, talks with Apple and NeXT Computer CEO Steve Jobs. An excerpt from the interview reads: Morrow – “Give me your thoughts on the current status and the future of the Internet and the commercial online services and how they’re affecting computer development.” Jobs – ” … I think one of the things that’s essential is that the government continue to fund the Internet as a public trust, as a public facility and remove any of these ridiculous notions of privatizing it that have been brought up. I don’t think they’re going to fly, thankfully … It’s the one last bright spot of hope in the computer industry for some serious innovation to happen at a rapid pace.”
Biography:Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computers in 1976 with Steve Wozniak. They began by building their computers in the Jobs family’s garage. Both men had earlier worked designing games for Atari. He left Apple in the mid-’80s and founded NeXT Corporation to build a new line of computers. He also helped fund and found Pixar in 1986. He returned to the position as Apple’s chief executive in the mid-’90s. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: April 20, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories
Title, headline, chapter name: Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs Founder, NeXT Computer.
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/sj1.html#net
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Lusk, James T.