The future, in my opinion, does not lie in the cable networks. The future is in the Internet, which is 100 percent democratic. … Hopefully, the (cable industry) Goliath is going to get hit in the head with a stone, the stone being the Internet.
Predictor: Gordon, Bob
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 TV column carried in the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Free Press, an unknown author writes about a 500-channel world of interactive, networked cable television, quoting Bob Gordon of the Auto Channel and Don Leahy of The Irish Channel: ”Cable will be far from the only game in town, with the expected growth of competitive options such as direct satellite services and telephone company-delivered video. ‘It’s not what kind of delivery truck delivers the goods, it’s the goods,’ Leahy said. Gordon agrees. ‘The great equalizer is coming and that’s technology.’ He believes the ultimate answer to what he calls the cable industry’s ‘un-American monopoly’ is cyberspace, where every man or woman can be a programming king. ‘The future, in my opinion, does not lie in the cable networks. The future is in the Internet, which is 100 percent democratic. … Hopefully, the (cable industry) Goliath is going to get hit in the head with a stone, the stone being the Internet.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Chattanooga Free Press (Tennessee)
Title, headline, chapter name: Bet on the Well-Connected in Cable Channel Contest
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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