By the year 2005, Americans will spend more time on the Internet than watching network television and videocassette rentals will have been replaced by easily available video-on-demand services.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 research paper titled “Tabloids, Radio and the Future of News,” Ellen Hume of the Annenberg Washington Program writes:”Nicholas Negroponte, founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, predicts that by the year 2005, Americans will spend more time on the Internet than watching network television and videocassette rentals will have been replaced by easily available video-on-demand services.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News
Title, headline, chapter name: The Future of News: The Consumer Wakes
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ellenhume.org/articles/tabloids2.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Little, Brandi W.