Gore speaks of a “catalyst” role for the federal government, akin to the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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: ”One vision, championed most visibly by U.S. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) is to create a National Research and Education Network (NREN) that will link the nation’s top research, education, corporate and governmental researchers. Gore’s bill to create NREN died in the last Congress but was re-introduced in January, 1991, with more coordinated support among governmental agencies. The NREN proposal is just one part of the government’s five-year, $2 billion High-Performance Computing Program, which includes supercomputers, software, networking and education. Gore speaks of a ‘catalyst’ role for the federal government, akin to the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Whole Earth Revue
Title, headline, chapter name: Highways of the Mind or Toll Roads Between Information Castles?
Quote Type: Paraphrase
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