The prediction, in brief:

There is potential for a tremendous “peace dividend” resulting from improved communications with and improved knowledge of other people, countries and cultures.

Predictor: Bulashova, Natasha

Prediction, in context:

Natasha Bulashova and Greg Cole made the following remark in a paper they presented at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Bulashova was director of the office of grants and research development in the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in the Russian Academy of Science in the Pushchino region near Moscow. Cole was director of the Office of Research Services at the University of Tennessee. They spoke of the success of the “Friends and Partners” Internet-based information system jointly operated by people in the U.S. and Russia in order to foster community, saying:”The authors have discovered – as have many others on the Internet – that there is so much potential for good resulting from the free flow of information across all sorts of geographic and political boundaries. We need to be careful as the Internet continues to evolve that we do not lose this fundamental benefit. There is potential for a tremendous ‘peace dividend’ resulting from improved communications with and improved knowledge of other people, countries and cultures.”

Date of prediction: June 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics

Subtopic: Peacekeeping/Warfare

Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)

Title, headline, chapter name: Friends and Partners: Building Global Community on the Internet

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/148/html/paper.html

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