These new frontiers of the next millennium are the uncensored, distributed self, and cyberspace – the location of the virtual self/community – Electric Gaia.
Predictor: Strangelove, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 essay for Computer-Mediated Communication magazine, Michael Strangelove, publisher of the Internet Business Journal and the author of “How to Advertise on the Internet,” writes about the anthropology of cyberspace, exploring, as he says, “the emergence of a new type of self I have called the uncensored self and looking into the possible social dynamics that will arise from the convergence of this new type of self with the approaching new millennium.” Strangelove writes: ”On the very threshold of our dreams, awareness of the extent of our possibilities is confronted by severe technological and biological barriers. This, though, is not the final word. Confronted with the inaccessibility of our physical frontiers, my generation has turned inward and discovered two new imminent and infinite frontiers. These new frontiers of the next millennium are the uncensored, distributed self, and cyberspace – the location of the virtual self/community – Electric Gaia.”
Date of prediction: September 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: The Physics of the Tragic Self
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/sep/self.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Vellucci, Amanda