A nationwide information and network infrastructure could open new avenues for mutual cooperation and support among our workplaces, schools, neighborhood centers, community groups, and government. This new digital environment has the potential to enable a richness in information access and sharing that could help us restore a sense of community within and between the public and private sectors.
Predictor: Kraut, Robert E.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 report for the Technology and Telecommuting Issues and Impacts Committee, commissioned by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, chairman Robert Kraut makes the following statement: ”In the public sector, new tools for distributed work could be used to address high-priority needs, such as rural and inner-city health care, and to remedy long-standing inequities among the nation’s classrooms. A nationwide information and network infrastructure could open new avenues for mutual cooperation and support among our workplaces, schools, neighborhood centers, community groups, and government. This new digital environment has the potential to enable a richness in information access and sharing that could help us restore a sense of community within and between the public and private sectors.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Telecommuting
Name of publication: Research Recomendations: To Facilitate Distributed Work
Title, headline, chapter name: Preface
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/distr_work/preface.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney