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Imagining the Internet: Predictions Database
URL: http://www.elon.edu/predictions/

Description:
Searchable and browsable 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." Topics include community, culture, global relationships, economic structures, information infrastructure, controversial issues, and more. The site also provides brief biographies of 200 early-90's "Internet personalities," and lists of Internet synonyms and acronyms.

Publisher:
Elon University; Pew Internet and American Life Project

Extra Keywords
information highway World Wide Web

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Internet
Internet -- Forecasting
Internet -- History

LII Database Information:
Record 12981 created by John Kupersmith on 01/10/2005
Last modification on 01/27/2005
Published: 01/10/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12981