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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> [Fwd: Tilman Baumgaertel g>)] |
> From: Hans Neuman <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Hans Neuman <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:24:33 +0100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> [Fwd: Tilman Baumgaertel <[email protected]> (by > way of alex galloway <[email protected]>)] > > TB: You coined the term "information superhighway." Do you think that > you got the right credit for it? > > NJP: Yes, I think I got enough credit. I used the term in a study I > wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. There's an earlier reference to the term that I found. Ralph Smith, a journalist and cable tv activist wrote about the concept of an electronic highway in 1971 in The Nation , pre-dating NJP and adjunct professor Al gore. Citation Smith, Ralph. The Wired Nation: Cable TV: The Electronic Communications Highway. Harper & Row, 1972. p. 83. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold