The prediction, in brief:

Self-teaching or mentored lessons could be accessible locally to teach the skills necessary to enjoy increasing benefits from the local and distributed telecomputing and the various levels of Internet access. Menus customized for the local community can provide local “fingertip” access to the best resources on the Internet.

Predictor: Odasz, Frank

Prediction, in context:

The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks” by Frank Odasz, the director of Big Sky Telegraph, Western Montana College of the University of Montana. He writes:”Self-teaching or mentored lessons could be accessible locally to teach the skills necessary to enjoy increasing benefits from the local and distributed telecomputing and the various levels of Internet access. Menus customized for the local community can provide local ‘fingertip’ access to the best resources on the Internet.”

Biography:

Frank Odasz was an assistant professor of computing education at the University of Colorado and the director of Big Sky Telegraph, a popular community network of the time. He was widely known as a speaker on community networking and educational technologies. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: General

Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)

Title, headline, chapter name: Issues in the Development of Community Cooperative Networks

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 126

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne