Whereas we all were going down separate streets – audio, video, online – now it’s all sort of coming together, and we need to sit down together to operate it properly.
Predictor: Driscoll, Jack
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for American Journalism Review, Kate McKenna reports on how the newspaper industry plans to get involved in the age of computer networks, interviewing Jack Driscoll of The Boston Globe. McKenna writes:”There are a lot of ants running off in different directions,’ says Jack Driscoll, a former editor of The Boston Globe who now heads up the paper’s new media office. ‘But I see a different anthill being built … Whereas we all were going down separate streets – audio, video, online – now it’s all sort of coming together, and we need to sit down together to operate it properly.'”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: American Journalism Review
Title, headline, chapter name: The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Volume 15, Issue 8, Page 16
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney