The existence of a premier information marketplace in the United States will give our companies and our citizens an advantage in worldwide competition. There will be many other developments that are currently invisible to us. Just as the development of the Interstate Highway System led to the creation of McDonald’s hamburgers, Holiday Inn and a thousand other new commercial developments that would have been impossible without the Interstate Highway System, in the same way we will see the emergence of information services on a nationwide basis that will be extremely profitable and nearly ubiquitous.
Predictor: Gore, Al
Prediction, in context:On March 23, 1993, a writer for Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report interviewed Al Gore about his responsibility as President Bill Clinton’s crafter of Internet policy. In the interview, Gore says: ”It will be possible for our national information marketplace to become the most dynamic and creative information marketplace in the world. And just as our industrial marketplace was so much more robust than any other nation during the 1950s and ’60s, the existence of a premier information marketplace in the United States will give our companies and our citizens an advantage in worldwide competition. There will be many other developments that are currently invisible to us. Just as the development of the Interstate Highway System led to the creation of McDonald’s hamburgers, Holiday Inn and a thousand other new commercial developments that would have been impossible without the Interstate Highway System, in the same way we will see the emergence of information services on a nationwide basis that will be extremely profitable and nearly ubiquitous.”
Date of prediction: March 23, 1993
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-commerce
Name of publication: Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
Title, headline, chapter name: Gore: Confident the U.S. Can Become ‘A Premiere Information Marketplace’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web14.epnet.com/citation.asp?tb=1&_ug=dbs+0+ln+en%2Dus+sid+71ED3F2E%2DB019%2D4020%2DA3A5%2DF9FBA06473FD%40Sessionmgr4%2DSessionmgr3+CBE5&_us=bs+%22Gore%3A++Confident++the++U%2ES%2E++can++become%2E%2E%2E%22+cst+0%3B1+ds+%22Gore%3A++Confident++the++U%2ES%2E++can++become%2E%2E%2E%22+dstb+KS+hd+0+hs+%2D1+or+Date+ri+KAAACBWB00037840+sl+0+sm+KS+so+b+ss+SO+769F&fn=1&rn=1
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