Related concerns about the social control are the questions of trust that commonly underlie popular resistance to technology: Will the inevitable corporate control over technological applications sacrifice public or individual interest to the imperatives of private profit?
Predictor: Nelkin, Dorothy
Prediction, in context:The 1997 book “Computers, Ethics, and Society,” edited by M. David Ermann, Mary B. Williams and Michele S. Shauf, carries a reprint of Spring 1994, National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal article “Information Technologies Could Threaten Privacy, Freedom, and Democracy” by Dorothy Nelkin. Nelkin asserts that Americans are less protective of their privacy rights than they claim to be. She writes: ”Related concerns about the social control are the questions of trust that commonly underlie popular resistance to technology: Will the inevitable corporate control over technological applications sacrifice public or individual interest to the imperatives of private profit?”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Ethics/Values
Name of publication: Computers, Ethics, and Society (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Information Technologies Could Threaten Privacy, Freedom, and Democracy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 24
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne