It’s supposed to be commercial. The commercialization of the Internet is the proof that what we are doing was worthwhile. It was not just an intellectual exercise for a few professors.
Predictor: Landweber, Lawrence
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 Wisconsin State Journal article, reporter Mike Dorsher paraphrases a point of view stated by Lawrence Landweber:”The way to make the Information Superhighway accessible and efficient, Landweber said, is to make users pay for it piecemeal – like a tollway. He said that will screen out the static – including vast quantities of pornographic pictures and words that lurk on the ‘dark side’ of the Internet. ‘It’s supposed to be commercial,’ he said. ‘The commercialization of the Internet is the proof that what we are doing was worthwhile. It was not just an intellectual exercise for a few professors.'”
Biography:Lawrence Landweber, then at the University of Wisconsin, created THEORYNET, providing electronic mail to a group of more than 100 computer-science researchers using a locally developed e-mail system over TELENET in 1977. In 1979 he worked with the National Science Foundation to establish a U.S. research computer network that eventually became NSFNET. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wisconsin State Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet: Computer Network is Superhighway On-Ramp
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=d569c86eabe6454223f5187e8f9f8703&_docnum=6&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=168c818c07d6459aeff4ef2bb1d8db77
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