Microsoft and other major companies will attempt to dominate the Internet, building toll booths up and down the information highway and turning it into yet another broadcast medium.
Predictor: Hoffman, Donna L.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for New Scientist, Joe Flower paraphrases a statement made by Donna Hoffman. Flower writes: ”Business and marketing experts such as Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and specialist on the new media, fear that Microsoft and other major companies will attempt to dominate the Internet, building toll booths up and down the information highway and turning it into yet another broadcast medium.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: New Scientist
Title, headline, chapter name: Idiot’s Guide to the Net: From Boston’s Cyberbars to Siena’s Schoolrooms, Some of the Frequently Asked Questions About the Network that Connects Us All
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 2222
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Krout, Kevin M.