The Net … is going to become more and more commercial because the government is going to want to stop paying for it. In other countries, they’re much smaller, and I don’t know if it could be supported by direct market competition, so the government will probably still support the Net.
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: ”One of the things we have to do on the Net is to stop being parochial. We have to learn that we’re talking about more than just the United States here. Every country is organized differently, and there’s vast changes, and vast differences in size. In the United States, the Net I believe is going to become more and more commercial because the government is going to want to stop paying for it. In other countries, they’re much smaller, and I don’t know if it could be supported by direct market competition, so the government will probably still support the Net.”
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: Role of Govt./Industry
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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