Arguably, the biggest challenge the Internet faces is the millions of new users suddenly set loose on it, with little or no cyber-training in “netiquette,” few controls and often little accountability – and great expectations of what the Internet should offer and what they should be “entitled” to do.
Predictor: Dern, Daniel
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article, Network Computing writer, Daniel Dern reports on how the Internet could transform business. He writes: ”Arguably, the biggest challenge the Internet faces is the millions of new users suddenly set loose on it, with little or no cyber-training in ‘netiquette,’ few controls and often little accountability – and great expectations of what the Internet should offer and what they should be ‘entitled’ to do.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet, Your Company and You
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 50
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne