In the next 12 months, you’ll be hearing plenty about “hot” Web pages, blazingly fast cable modems, $500 Internet terminals and cyberspace coverage of the presidential election. No matter that most people in the United States have yet to log on, let alone Net-surf. In 1996, maybe they will.
Predictor: Barlow, John Perry
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Newsweek, writers Steven Levy, Katie Hafner and Roger Adams quote John Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They write: ”In the next 12 months, you’ll be hearing plenty about ‘hot’ Web pages, blazingly fast cable modems, $500 Internet terminals and cyberspace coverage of the presidential election. No matter that most people in the United States have yet to log on, let alone Net-surf. In 1996, maybe they will. ‘If this year seemed like a big one for the Net, wait till the next one,’ says the EFF’s John Barlow. ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet.'”
Biography:John Perry Barlow helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 with WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link) members Mitch Kapor and John Gilmore in direct response to a threat to free speech. Barlow’s was one of the loudest voices in the battle to keep the Internet unfettered while still encouraging that it become a tool available to everyone. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: December 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: The Year of the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 26
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney