"Imagining the Internet" predictions database

[John Kupersmith]

A New York Times article today, "The Internet's Future? It Depends on Whom 
You Ask" by Tom Zeller Jr.
< http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/technology/10pew.html >

describes a new web site called "Imagining the Internet: Predictions Database"
< http://www.elon.edu/predictions/ >

Created by the Pew Foundation and Elon University, this site offers a 
database of over 4000 predictions made about the Internet in the early 
1990's, plus more recent predictions from a 2004 survey of "technology 
stakeholders".

Much food for thought here.  Searching "librar*" in the main predictions 
database gets 277 hits. "Librarian*" gets 52. "Privacy" gets 
309.  "Usability" gets 8 (well, who knew?).  And if you tire of searching, 
you can read pre-selected snippets in several categories.

But wait, there's more! - brief biographies of 200 Internet pioneers; 
Internet synonyms and acronyms; and an interesting list of words the 
researchers looked for as "prediction cues".

Highly recommended.

--jk
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