It will become critical for everyone to be connected. Anyone who doesn’t will essentially be isolated from the world community.
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Boston Globe, Charles Radin quotes Vinton Cerf. Radin writes: ”Noting that the Internet has expanded far beyond its original focus on interactive computer communications and is now able to transmit audio and video, and that use of the network for electronic mail communications has grown well beyond expectations, Cerf said ‘it will become critical for everyone to be connected. Anyone who doesn’t will essentially be isolated from the world community.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: U.S. Data Highway Gathers Speed; Rules of Road Eyed for Computer Network
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6ea0796bb06af8d3f1ac3ed4e2691055&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlzV&_md5=f13b8a653f11cf52210cb47d3e441989
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