By lessening the obstacles to education, the Internet will create a community of informed, interacting, and tolerant world citizens.
Predictor: Ehlers, Vern
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Roll Call, Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.) and a member of the House Oversight Committee, writes: ”By lessening the obstacles to education, the Internet will create a community of informed, interacting, and tolerant world citizens.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Creating a Smaller World
Name of publication: Roll Call
Title, headline, chapter name: Beyond the Cyberhype: What the Internet Means to the Congressman of the Future
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney