We may have to start paying for it, but I think that the prices will be reasonable and it will be worth it. I think that it is going to become such an important part of many people’s lives that we can’t do without it. After all, no matter what it costs, within reason, you have to have a telephone, and you have to have access to the postal system, and you pretty much have to be able to buy electricity and maybe gas if you need gas where you live, and the Net is going to be like that.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remark in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net. ”We may see the days when many people have free access to the Net start to disappear. We may have to start paying for it, but I think that the prices will be reasonable and it will be worth it. I think that it is going to become such an important part of many people’s lives that we can’t do without it. After all, no matter what it costs, within reason, you have to have a telephone, and you have to have access to the postal system, and you pretty much have to be able to buy electricity and maybe gas if you need gas where you live, and the Net is going to be like that.”
Biography:Harley Hahn was a technology author, analyst and consultant and a prolific writer of books about computers and the Internet in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Voices From the Net
Title, headline, chapter name: Harley Hahn: Author
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp000317.txt
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