The idea that all this information will be out in cyberspace and people will select what they want is insane.
Predictor: Fidler, Roger
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The New York Times, Glenn Rifkin quotes Roger Fidler in a discussion about the future of newspapers in an Internet age. Rifkin writes:”Roger F. Fidler, director of the Knight-Ridder Information Design Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., argued that such a profusion of information [brought by the Internet] would make editors and reporters all the more valuable. ‘The idea that all this information will be out in cyberspace and people will select what they want is insane,’ he said. ‘There is no business model for that. Who will pay for it?'”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: The Media Business: Seeing the Future of Print in a Universe Gone Digital
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=bb24bf2cb57df0a876fac4637ca42c53&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=568b2a6e7782dd3855fb376296ce90bd
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