A workable national network might include the following features: Built and managed by private enterprise. Federal start-up subsidies for colleges, universities, libraries and schools. First Amendment free-speech guarantees. Guaranteed interconnection to other data services offered by telephone companies and other locally regulated businesses. Guaranteed universal digital access for everyone who wants to connect. Fair rates and policies subject to regulatory review.
Predictor: Karraker, Roger
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for The Whole Earth Review, a quarterly magazine of access to tools and ideas, Roger Karraker writes about the network. In his conclusion of a long look at industry and government proposals for building the Internet infrastructure, he writes: ”Let’s play Chinese menu, taking a few items from column A (Al Gore’s NREN/Big Scientists bill) and column B (the Universalists approach). A workable national network might include the following features: Built and managed by private enterprise. Federal start-up subsidies for colleges, universities, libraries and schools. First Amendment free-speech guarantees. Guaranteed interconnection to other data services offered by telephone companies and other locally regulated businesses. Guaranteed universal digital access for everyone who wants to connect. Fair rates and policies subject to regulatory review.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Whole Earth Revue
Title, headline, chapter name: Highways of the Mind or Toll Roads Between Information Castles?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/hiways_of_mind.article
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry