Pundits, executives, special interest groups, corporations and politicians will talk about the information highway in terms that will make it appear that it will magically cure all of Canada’s economic ills. Yet, few of these people will have learned how to leverage the global knowledge found within the Internet. Few of them will understand what the highway is or can be, while purporting to represent us in its development.
Predictor: Broadhead, Rick
Prediction, in context:In their 1994 book “Canadian Internet Handbook,” Rick Broadhead and Jim Carroll write: ”Many people who will talk of the significance of the ‘information highway’ in the time to come, will have little practical knowledge of the Internet, and will not appreciate the significance of this global knowledge network to the future evolution of the information highway in Canada. Pundits, executives, special interest groups, corporations and politicians will talk about the information highway in terms that will make it appear that it will magically cure all of Canada’s economic ills. Yet, few of these people will have learned how to leverage the global knowledge found within the Internet. Few of them will understand what the highway is or can be, while purporting to represent us in its development.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Canadian Internet Handbook
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet in Canada
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 56
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Burnham, Jay