The best way to get broad access is to have vital, competitive, aggressive industries – which, in the process of competing with each other, drive down the costs and therefore bring the goods or accessibility to a larger and larger number of people.
Predictor: Grove, Andy
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for BusinessWeek, Geoff Lewis interviews Intel CEO Andy Grove. When asked about providing network access to the disenfranchised, Grove tells Lewis: ”If we modify the goal and don’t talk about equal access, but talk about broad access, as broad as possible, my belief is that the best way to get broad access is to have vital, competitive, aggressive industries – which, in the process of competing with each other, drive down the costs and therefore bring the goods or accessibility to a larger and larger number of people. That is what brought TV sets to people. That is what brought PCs to people … The role of government ought to be to stimulate that rapid access and move from legacies of regulated monopolies to the model of the industries that brought that kind of access.”
Biography:Andy Grove was computer chipmaker Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998. He received much recognition for his tech achievements, including the 1987 Engineering Leadership Recognition Award from the IEEE and Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1997. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Digital Divide
Name of publication: BusinessWeek
Title, headline, chapter name: The World According To Andy Grove
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Business Week: Special 1994 Bonus Issue: The Enabling Technology. June 1994 Page 76 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6e350aa48e93e63465292e9b2da5b22e&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlzV&_md5=26368617b22bafcf9b58beff28792bce
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