A myriad of magazines and information services feed our society with information, and kiosks sell them. I think that is what is going to come to be the norm in electronic markets.
Predictor: Markey, Edward
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, John Browning writes about key legislative decisionmaking expected to open networks to competition from top to bottom, quoting Rep. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance and co-author with Jack Fields (R-Texas) of a key piece of telecom-reform legislation known as the Markey-Fields bill. The bill would force former telecom monopolists to provide competitors with access to their wires, switches, etc.; would allow cable companies to provide phone service and phone companies to provide video programming. Browning quotes Markey:”Think of publishing. In most communities there are a couple of newspapers that readers have access to that are in many ways equivalent to the network. A myriad of magazines and information services feed our society with information, and kiosks sell them. I think that is what is going to come to be the norm in electronic markets.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Power PC: As You Read This, The Final Deals Are Being Cut On Radically New Communications Regulations. To Find Out What Rep. Ed Markey and Other Insiders Are Arguing About This Summer, Read On
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/markey_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney