My fear is that it becomes entirely privatized.
Predictor: Wetherell, David
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer Reseller News, Charlotte Dunlap talks with David Wetherell of Booklink Technologies about the shift of the Internet from government control to a more commercial structure. She writes: ”The question remains how the new [Internet] structure will affect business activities. ‘My fear is that it becomes entirely privatized,’ said David Wetherell, president of navigational tools manufacturer Booklink Technologies Inc., Wilmington, Mass. ‘The great thing about the Internet today is that no one owns it. If you have a good product or service, you can put it up on the network and let the public decide if it’s good.'”
Biography:David Wetherell was running College Marketing Group in the 1990s when he started Booklink Technologies to sell textbooks to college professors. He set up the @Ventures fund to bankroll Internet startups, including a big infusion of cash for Lycos in 1995. He launched a host of subsidiaries to provide key infrastructure for emerging e-commerce. CMG became Internet holding company CMGI Inc. Business Week called him the “Internet Evangelist,” and he was named one of Time magazine’s “Digital 50.” (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Computer Reseller News
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Prepares for Commercialization
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?TS=1046117483&RQT=309&CC=2&Dtp=1&Did=000000001373488&Mtd=1&Fmt=3
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Wright, Laura C.