I don’t think it’s going to be very long before health care reform, tax cuts and foreign policy are debated on the Internet. The 1996 presidential campaign will be an enormous catalyst for that process.
Predictor: Rotenberg, Marc
Prediction, in context:Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, is quoted here in a newsgroup’s reprint of Graeme Browning’s 1995 National Journal article on the Exon Amendment (Communications Decency Act). Browning writes:”The Electronic Privacy Information Center is tinkering with interactive programs that Rotenberg said ‘will increase our visibility on Capitol Hill’ … Computer-based lobbying will also move beyond the privacy and free-speech issues on which it has concentrated in the past, Rotenberg said. .. ‘I don’t think it’s going to be very long before health care reform, tax cuts and foreign policy are debated on the Internet,’ he added. ‘The 1996 presidential campaign will be an enormous catalyst for that process.'”
Biography:Marc Rotenberg, was founder and director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), in the 1990s. He won an EFF Pioneer Award in 1997 for his work as a “champion of privacy, human rights and civil liberties on the electronic frontier.” He targeted the impact of computer and telecommunications technologies on freedom and privacy and was an active writer and speaker on associated topics. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable Web site
Title, headline, chapter name: National Journal Exon Amendment Article
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/roundtable/1995-02/0168.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stevens, Shawn