We celebrate the effect of modern telecommunications in creating a “global village” with the potential for events occurring anywhere to be reported everywhere and for all sorts of information … we must realize that unfortunately, but inevitably, this same infrastructure can serve to propagate distasteful, indecent, or immoral material such as pornography and racist hate propaganda.
Predictor: Jipguep, Jean
Prediction, in context:Jean Jipguep, chairman of the International Telecommunication Union Board, delivered the keynote address at the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference June 27-30. Jipguep says: ”There will also be a meta-culture of the Net. INET 95 registrants come from 110 countries, and share a common electronic culture, while each of you retains roots in your national and ethnic cultures … We celebrate the effect of modern telecommunications in creating a ‘global village’ with the potential for events occurring anywhere to be reported everywhere and for all sorts of information: knowledge, research results, educational resources, news, literature, ‘films’ to be shared via the global information infrastructure. At the same time, we must realize that unfortunately, but inevitably, this same infrastructure can serve to propagate distasteful, indecent, or immoral material such as pornography and racist hate propaganda.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Creating a Smaller World
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Global Telecommunication Infrastructure and the Information Society
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PLENARY/L1-6/html/paper.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney