The same technology that will put every “Star Trek” episode ever made within reach of a few clicks of your set-top device, will also give you access to educational resources beyond those available on even the finest university campus today. Imagine a virtual university where the best lecturers in the world are on tap at the moment you are ready to concentrate on learning.
Predictor: Jipguep, Jean
Prediction, in context:Jean Jipguep, chairman of the International Telecommunication Union Board, delivered the keynote address at the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference June 27-30. Jipguep says: ”Information should, in theory, be able to flow from any source to any destination providing the network is digital, and providing the addressing scheme is universal … The infrastructure standards will have to reflect the requirements of the diverse applications. The GII [Global Information Infrastructure] itself will be a ‘network of networks’ that will evolve out of existing technologies and services, just as communications has always done … But the same technology that will put every ‘Star Trek’ episode ever made within reach of a few clicks of your set-top device, will also give you access to educational resources beyond those available on even the finest university campus today. Imagine a virtual university where the best lecturers in the world are on tap at the moment you are ready to concentrate on learning. I don’t think anybody today is really well aware of what will be the preferred applications of the GII in the future. Certainly I am not… We can be sure that what there will be five or maximum 10 years from now, will be different from what we know today.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Global Telecommunication Infrastructure and the Information Society
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PLENARY/L1-6/html/paper.html
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