The prediction, in brief:

Networks are producing new organizational environments – contexts and infrastructures that appear to be redefining the way in which people work and the way they acquire, use, and disseminate information. Yet, the opportunities and challenges associated with living and working in networked organizations and communities are only beginning to be explored. Such opportunities and challenges suggest an exciting future for electronic networking – a future that will be discussed, debated, and assessed.

Predictor: McClure, Charles

Prediction, in context:

In a 1991 introduction to the new journal he was to edit – Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, and Policy (ENRAP) – Charles McClure, a professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, writes:”There is growing recognition that the rapid development of national and international electronic networks and their increasing integration into work and personal lives have combined to form what might be the single most important information management and communication issue of the 1990s. Despite this recognition, few formal scholarly mechanisms currently foster debate, discussion, and the presentation of research … As a result, networks are producing new organizational environments – contexts and infrastructures that appear to be redefining the way in which people work and the way they acquire, use, and disseminate information. Yet, the opportunities and challenges associated with living and working in networked organizations and communities are only beginning to be explored. Such opportunities and challenges suggest an exciting future for electronic networking – a future that will be discussed, debated, and assessed.”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1991

Topic of prediction: Community/Culture

Subtopic: General

Name of publication: Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy (ENRAP)

Title, headline, chapter name: Exciting Times in Electronic Networking

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1992/ENRAP/Blurb

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney