Everything we read, spend money on, or do will literally be a database … Many people believe that privacy will be the nightmare issue of the NII.
Predictor: Weingarten, Fred W.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for BusinessWeek, writer John Carey addresses U.S. policy and quotes Fred W. Weingarten. Carey writes: ”Imagine that the nation avoids all these mistakes, and that all back roads lead to the Info Superhighway. Digital nirvana? Not yet. Inevitably, experts say, sleaze and crime – pornography, gambling, scams – will flow down the gutters of the Infobahn. The potential for abuse will be enormously magnified byt the amounts of data in the system. ‘Everything we read, spend money on, or do will literally be a database,’ says Fred W. Weingarten, executive director of the Computer Research Association. He adds: ‘Many people believe that privacy will be the nightmare issue of the NII [National Information Infrastructure].'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance
Name of publication: BusinessWeek
Title, headline, chapter name: From Internet to Infobahn
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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