“Information will be a public good,” … possibly requiring a government agency to police information, as the Securities and Exchange Commission does for the financial markets. “It will be a much more ethical marketplace.”
Predictor: Snider, James
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for United Press International, reporter Dominic Manno quotes an appearance by Northwestern University Professor James Snider at a Philadelphia conference. Manno writes: ”Snider, who co-authored the book ‘Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy,’ said … ‘Information will be a public good,’ … possibly requiring a government agency to police information, as the Securities and Exchange Commission does for the financial markets. ‘It will be a much more ethical marketplace.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Shopping
Name of publication: United Press International
Title, headline, chapter name: Electronic Shopping Takes to Information Highway
Quote Type: Partial quote
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney