Unlike the craze for baggy jeans and Pogs, this isn’t just some passing fad. Market researchers predict the number of kids online could triple by the end of 1998. So when the big bills come – and they will – parents will have only themselves to blame for bringing computers and online services home with them.
Predictor: Guglielmo, Connie
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for PC Week, Connie Guglielmo writes about how the Internet is drawing more people and communities online: ”In cyberspace, there’s no minimum age requirement. And don’t think kids aren’t taking advantage of that … Unlike the craze for baggy jeans and Pogs, this isn’t just some passing fad. Market researchers predict the number of kids online could triple by the end of 1998. So when the big bills come – and they will – parents will have only themselves to blame for bringing computers and online services home with them.”
Biography:Connie Guglielmo, was a writer who worked for Interactive Week, covering the key companies in and around Silicon Valley. She worked as a reporter and editor at MacWEEK in the late ’80s and early ’90s, rising to executive editor of news. She also worked as a freelance writer and editor for such publications as Fortune, Upside and Wired; and such projects as Against All Odds Productions’ “24 Hours in Cyberspace” and the “Macintosh Bible.” (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: March 13, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: PC Week
Title, headline, chapter name: Just Child’s Play
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web5.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/152/33/31993891w5/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A16664623&dyn=7!xrn_57_0_A16664623?sw_aep=ncliveec
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Kafoure, David