Pioneers in electronic or telecommunications media are establishing new definitions and structures for education, community, and cooperation every day. They are developing tools and systems which may prove to be vital to the salvation of the planet.
Predictor: Figallo, Cliff
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 news release announcing the appointment of Cliff Figallo to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cambridge, Mass., office, Figallo is quoted saying: ”Pioneers in electronic or telecommunications media are establishing new definitions and structures for education, community, and cooperation every day. They are developing tools and systems which may prove to be vital to the salvation of the planet. This work must go on. I look forward to helping EFF communicate the importance of events on the Electronic Frontier to current and future settlers, and to those who would, through unwise use of power, stifle the continued exploration and settling of this new realm of the mind and the human spirit.”
Biography:Cliff Figallo, was managing director of the WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link, one of the best known conferencing systems and virtual communities in the United States in the 1990s) and a director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cambridge office in the early 1990s. He later worked with Pandora Systems. Figallo and John Coate are regarded to be the chief architects of the WELL’s implementation of virtual community. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: July 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Title, headline, chapter name: Cliff Figallo of the WELL Named to EFF’s Cambridge Office
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.eff.org/Misc/EFF/Historical/figallo_hired.announce
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Gulbranson, Mathea