We are vastly underrepresented in areas such as poor people, industrial workers, housewives, young children, policy makers and senior professionals. We need to find effective means to outreach to all these groups and more.
Predictor: Crocker, Steve
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Computerworld, writer J.C. Herz interviews Steve Crocker. The article is actually an excerpt from a book by Herz titled “Surfing on the Internet.” Herz writes: ”We have on our hands what Steve Crocker, an armchair Net sociologist at Youngstown State University, calls a ‘human bandwidth problem.’ The hardware is whirring away just fine (for now), but the danger of human overload is more serious. ‘A limiting factor in the usefulness of the Net to individuals is the inability of a person to read more than a minute fraction of even the news they are actually interested in,’ Crocker says. ‘I think we all have wished that the Net were more universal. We are vastly underrepresented in areas such as poor people, industrial workers, housewives, young children, policy makers and senior professionals. We need to find effective means to outreach to all these groups and more.'”
Biography:Steve Crocker was probably best known in the 1990s as the founder of CyberCash Inc. a leading Internet payments company. Earlier, he was program manager on the team developing the protocols for ARPANET in 1966. In1968, he organized the Network Working Group to develop host-level protocols for ARPANET communication. He began the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which Internet protocol designs are documented and shared, and he wrote RFC 1 and many others. In1970, he worked with Vinton Cerf and C.S. Carr to publish the first ARPANET host-host protocol. He later became known as an Internet and computer business and security specialist. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Digital Divide
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Newbie Bashing
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=f329ce1feefed32b7369934ff3777189&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=796a7047a90430e8bcc3fe607877ec00
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