The Net of the future will have many levels of publications. You’ll have some personal documents. You’ll be the editor of a few small newsletters or clubs. You’ll be part of some professional societies and each will have a professional letter or journal, because that’s a big enough community that there will be enough people to be worth indexing in a more professional way. And so on to ever large communities … There will be a billion repositories, whether you like it or not … What we need are new architectures for systems that actually do something about analyzing and cross-correlating from multiple sources.
Predictor: Schatz, Bruce R.
Prediction, in context:Bruce Schatz, the principal investigator on the NSF/ARPA/NASA-funded Digital Libraries project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivers the keynote lecture at the American Society for Information Science’s annual meeting, in Chicago Oct. 11, 1995. He says:”The Net of the future will have many levels of publications. You’ll have some personal documents. You’ll be the editor of a few small newsletters or clubs. You’ll be part of some professional societies and each will have a professional letter or journal, because that’s a big enough community that there will be enough people to be worth indexing in a more professional way. And so on to ever large communities … There will be a billion repositories, whether you like it or not, and if the systems are ready and if the people who know about information retrieval do something, then maybe people will be able to find things in the world of a billion repositories. If they don’t then it will be, not like the Web now where you can actually find something if you’re sufficiently energetic, it will be like you’re in the Library of Congress, in all the archives that are under the ground that you know are unsorted, and there’s nothing. There’s no card catalogue. Nothing, and you would like to find some information. What you are going to do is wander around at random and pass on the way some skeletons that are sitting there dead … And the question is ‘can technology solve the problem?’ And I’m going to say … yes … What we need are new architectures for systems that actually do something about analyzing and cross-correlating from multiple sources.”
Date of prediction: October 11, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Keynote Plenary Lecture at American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting
Title, headline, chapter name: Information Analysis in the Net: The Interspace of the Twenty-First Century
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://asis.org/asis-95/Schatz-Keynote
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Strickland, Amanda M.