Paper journals will die in the next few years … If we listen closely we hear the death knoll of biomedical journals.
Predictor: LaPorte, Ronald
Prediction, in context:A research group representing The Global Health Network, an international group with the hope of using the Internet to establish a better world of medicine and prevention, made the following statement in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. The group included Ronald LaPorte and Ingrid Libman of the University of Pittsburgh; Anthony Villasenor, NASA; Carlos Gamboa, Pan American Health Organization; Eugene Boostrom of the World Bank; Eric Marler; Francois Sauer, AT&T; Shunichi Akazawa, World Health Organization; and Caryle Glosser. They report: ”Paper journals will die in the next few years. Paper journals are extremely expensive, the information in the journals are three years old, there is little interaction concerning the information in the journals, and the paper clutters our offices! Recently we have argued that if we listen closely we hear the death knoll of biomedical journals. We have sketched the architecture of a new research communication system that has it origins in physics, where research communications are posted to an information server, daily the titles of the new posting are sent worldwide, and people request the communications to be sent to them…eliminating the paper system.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Global Health Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/231/txt/paper.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney