Changes in the technology of libraries and publishing may create alternatives to the power of publisher – and soon.
Predictor: Browning, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, John Browning takes a look at the future of libraries in a networked age. He writes:”An author is someone whose views are considered so important and interesting to a publisher that the publisher is willing to risk money to bring those views to the public. Authors and (especially) would-be authors have complained about the arbitrariness of this distinction since before the printers of London balked at publishing Newton’s treatise on calculus. (Their grounds: mathematics books never sell.) Changes in the technology of libraries and publishing may create alternatives to the power of publisher – and soon.”
Biography:John Browning served as executive editor of Wired UK, the English-language European edition of Wired, the magazine established to chronicle the digital revolution. Prior to Wired, Browning spent 12 years at The Economist, writing about business, technology and economics. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Libraries Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information Economy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/libraries_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry