The First Amendment provides for freedom to publish by media owners, but it does not necessarily provide a right of access to media … People are increasingly able to create, deliver, and express in text, images, and sound regardless of the medium – one can define an information product by what it does rather than by the medium to which it is bound; there may not be a physical medium.
Predictor: National Research Council
Prediction, in context:In 1994, the NRENaissance Committee, appointed by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, produced a special report titled “Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.” Among the committee members were Internet pioneers Leonard Kleinrock, David Clark, David Farber, Lawrence Landweber and Robert Kahn. The committee’s goal was to “study issues raised by the shift to a larger, more truly national networking capability.” Among its statements about the blossoming of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) is this: ”The First Amendment provides for freedom to publish by media owners, but it does not necessarily provide a right of access to media. What the Internet experience shows, however, is that the convergence of digital media enables an effective separation of content from the carrier. People are increasingly able to create, deliver, and express in text, images, and sound regardless of the medium – one can define an information product by what it does rather than by the medium to which it is bound; there may not be a physical medium.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Jurisdiction/Control
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Flow of Information
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney