[We should] follow the “low threshold, open growth” principle when designing network services, applications, and projects. For the foreseeable future and maybe forever, different people will have access to different levels and kinds of functionality in their personal computers, local networks, servers, storage, software, bandwidth to the wide area networks, and so forth. We should design internetworked services, applications, projects, and virtual communities in such a way that people can join in at some very low threshold.
Predictor: Hunter, Beverly
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform” by Beverly Hunter, an educational strategist in the Educational Technologies Department of the technology firm Bolt, Beranek & Newman. She was previously the program director for Applications of Advanced Technologies in Science Education at the National Science Foundation. She writes: ”[We should] follow the ‘low threshold, open growth’ principle when designing network services, applications, and projects. For the foreseeable future and maybe forever, different people will have access to different levels and kinds of functionality in their personal computers, local networks, servers, storage, software, bandwidth to the wide area networks, and so forth. We should design internetworked services, applications, projects, and virtual communities in such a way that people can join in at some very low threshold.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 110, 111
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