Important as global access may be, it is usually perceived a poor second to local community interaction. The optimal combination is to have a local BBS as a user-friendly “front-end” for the Internet as well as a convenient local community communications tool.
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: ”Important as global access may be, it is usually perceived a poor second to local community interaction. The optimal combination is to have a local BBS [Bulletin Board Service] as a user-friendly ‘front-end’ for the Internet as well as a convenient local community communications tool.”
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: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Universal Service
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