Further evolution of the Internet into the National Research and Education Network (NREN) and its expanding size and widespread use among industry, schools, and the public will increase the importance of electronic networks as a forum for scholarly work.
Online newspapers “may be more an integrator of other people’s information.”
The multiplying of channels with digital compression and the evolution of the information superhighway will “tremendously weaken the gatekeeper function” of traditional journalism.
All will merge, and all will be online.
Telephone companies, computer firms, and public libraries will be under increasing pressure to provide low-cost or free access to computer networks. The emergence of computer networks also will require revisions in copyright laws and other forms of protection for those who produce books, articles, and movies.
To absorb information is not enough. The world could be run by computers if all that were needed were raw data. To be able to make sense out of information, to be able to analyze, to be able to process information and maybe come out with a new conclusion, this is the true value of education … People, like Dvorak, are presuming that technology can be thrown at the problem of education and will automatically provide better results. This is far from the case.
We think that some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net. As easily as people approach word-processing today. And that should be a huge market opportunity for a lot of companies. Everybody has something to say.
The catalog of resources on the Internet will be supported by advertising in the future.
There’ll be a bond between technology and academia.
Data is going to be scattered across lots and lots of different repositories. And a lot of them are relational [databases] on network servers and mainframes. The data, still today, is … pretty hard to get at; it requires customized front-end applications.