The civic networking movement the world over is starting to do its networking in earnest now, and that’s terrific. Will it be Home Shopping Channel the whole planet wide? You can make the difference by getting involved right now.
Predictor: Agre, Phil
Prediction, in context:The February 1994 issue of The Network Observer, an online newsletter, carries an article titled “Welcome” by Phil Agre, TNO editor, who was, at the time, working in the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Agre writes:”As with most other issues, Canadians have the risk of getting American solutions (and American rhetoric, info highways and all) spilling over the border by default, as well as the opportunity to look at the American example critically and choose alternatives that fit their own conception of themselves as a decent liberal democracy. We’ll see which way it goes. The good news is that Canada’s civic networking movement has gotten started. Indeed, the civic networking movement the world over is starting to do its networking in earnest now, and that’s terrific. Will it be Home Shopping Channel the whole planet wide? You can make the difference by getting involved right now.”
Biography:Phillip E. Agre was an associate professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been the author of research studies on the Internet. He edited The Network Observer, an online newsletter on Internet issues. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Network Observer
Title, headline, chapter name: Welcome
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/tno/february-1994.html
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