A commercialized Internet will grow in scope to rival the voice telephone network, providing all sorts of commercial services, including entertainment Ð perhaps replacing the television Ð transaction processing and information services … What will make commercialization possible is the looming turnover by the government of network control and direct funding to the private sector.
Predictor: Savage, J.A.
Prediction, in context:In a 1990 article for Computerworld, J.A. Savage and Gary Anthes quote Brian Kahin, director of the Information Infrastructure Project at Havard University. They write: ”Some said a commercialized Internet will grow in scope to rival the voice telephone network, providing all sorts of commercial services, including entertainment Ð perhaps replacing the television Ð transaction processing and information services. A commercialized Internet could become a national information infrastructure, ‘a ubiquitous, orderly communications system that reflects and addresses all social needs and market demand without being subject to artificial limitation on purpose or connection,’ said Brian Kahin, director of the Information Infrastructure Project in the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. What will make commercialization possible is the looming turnover by the government of network control and direct funding to the private sector.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1990
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Privatization Adrift
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 12
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