To build the nationwide fiber-optic network necessary for full interactive multimedia – which combines video and audio with the text and still pictures that current networks can carry – would require at least $ 325 billion, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation estimates.
Predictor: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Houston Chronicle, Joe Abernathy writes: ”To build the nationwide fiber-optic network necessary for full interactive multimedia – which combines video and audio with the text and still pictures that current networks can carry – would require at least $ 325 billion, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation estimates.”
Date of prediction: December 21, 1992
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Houston Chronicle
Title, headline, chapter name: Clinton Team Signals New Computer Era; Gore Worked 10 Years to Put America Online
Quote Type: Direct quote
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