The single biggest problem with this undertaking … is it is one of those elephants that looks like something different to everyone in the room … Unless commercial opportunities exist, the NII will not get the funding it needs to succeed.
Predictor: Rosen, Hillary
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Billboard, the music industry magazine, Catherine Applefeld reports on a National Information Infrastructure task force hearing Nov. 18 in Crystal City, Nevada, at which Hillary Rosen, executive vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America appeared. Applefeld writes: ”In an interview after the NII hearing, Rosen told Billboard, ‘The hearing identified the single biggest problem with this undertaking, and that is it is one of those elephants that looks like something different to everyone in the room.” She said there was clearly ‘tension’ between those testifying from the academic sector and those with a commercial interest, ‘but unless commercial opportunities exist, the NII will not get the funding it needs to succeed.'”
Date of prediction: November 18, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Billboard
Title, headline, chapter name: Trade Wants C’Right Assurances As Info Highway is Paved
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Volume 105, Issue 49, Page 10
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney