Regarding the vulnerability of the network to unconscious or conscious abuse, this condition will unfortunately remain. However, it can be lessened by simple precautions made available to the user and largely the user’s responsibility … The notion of some Internet police officer protecting us from potential harm is not in the best interest of higher education. It is a principle of great tradition … that the weaknesses as well as the strengths of intellectual discourse constitute educational experiences in themselves.
Predictor: Roddy, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 online newsletter for the University of California, Davis, Kevin Roddy, a Medieval Studies professor writes about the Internet and higher education. He writes:”Regarding the vulnerability of the network to unconscious or conscious abuse, this condition will unfortunately remain. However, it can be lessened by simple precautions made available to the user and largely the user’s responsibility … The notion of some Internet police officer protecting us from potential harm is not in the best interest of higher education. It is a principle of great tradition … that the weaknesses as well as the strengths of intellectual discourse constitute educational experiences in themselves.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Information Technology Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Teaching with the Internet: What There is and What There Might Be
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://ittimes.ucdavis.edu/v2n3sprg94/teaching.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney