There will be a credibility industry.
Predictor: Bender, Walter
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article he wrote for Editor & Publisher, George Garneau reports on “The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age,” a Cambridge, Mass., conference held in May and sponsored by Computer Sciences Corp. He writes, quoting Walter Bender of MIT:”Then there was Walter Bender, a founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and researcher at the media-industry-funded News in the Future consortium. ‘The role of the publisher is to know the community … that’s where their value lies,’ he said. ‘There will be a credibility industry,’ he predicted, citing the Boston Globe. ‘I know where the Boston Globe is coming from because I have been reading it for 30 years,’ said Bender … Bender said there were no technical stumbling blocks to digital information delivery systems. ‘The basic pieces are there,’ he said, pointing to computer networks such as the Internet, cable television and the 20 million pagers now in use, many of them capable of receiving text almost anywhere. Bender suggested that homes might someday be equipped with color printers to print newspapers tailored to individual needs.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: Editor & Publisher
Title, headline, chapter name: Techies Meet with Journalists
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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