Just as the bicycle form eventually stabilized, Guedon expects that electronic journal design will, too, though the process may take five or ten more years. In the meantime, he says, the journals that flourish will almost certainly be those designed with enough flexibility to evolve.
Predictor: Guedon, Jean-Claude
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Jacques Leslie writes about the movement of bringing scholarly journals to the Internet. He quotes Jean-Claude Guedon, a journal editor. Leslie writes:”Jean-Claude Guedon, editor of Surfaces, a bilingual scholarly electronic journal on comparative literature and a specialist in the history of science at the University of Montreal, says that the many designs of electronic journals remind him of the early days of the bicycle, when it appeared in ‘a bewildering variety of shapes.’ Just as the bicycle form eventually stabilized, Guedon expects that electronic journal design will, too, though the process may take five or ten more years. In the meantime, he says, the journals that flourish will almost certainly be those designed with enough flexibility to evolve.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/ejournals_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney