While the NII will cause some cognitive dissonance between freedom of information and social control [in Singapore], it will hasten the evolutionary incremental change toward greater freedom. The NII will merely hasten the debate about access to information, a debate that is already going on.’
Predictor: Kao, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, Sandy Sandfort covers the possibilities the Internet brings to the nation of Singapore, quoting Harvard Professor John Kao. Sandfort writes: ”At least one person sees Singapore overcoming the social challenge posed by the NII with relative ease. ‘While the NII will cause some cognitive dissonance between freedom of information and social control [in Singapore], it will hasten the evolutionary incremental change toward greater freedom,’ says John Kao, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied the entrepreneurial overseas Chinese. ‘The NII will merely hasten the debate about access to information, a debate that is already going on.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Third-World Nations
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Intelligent Island: We Asked Sandy Sandfort to Tell Us Whether Technology Will Ultimately Liberate the Intelligent Island
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/sandfort_pr.html
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