The prediction, in brief:

There is nothing to be afraid of. It’s not going to be HAL, but “Remains of the Day.”

Predictor: Enthusiast

Prediction, in context:

In her 1995 book “Life on the Screen,” Sherry Turkle – an accomplished social psychologist, sociologist and anthropologist from MIT whose studies centered around people and computers for decades – writes:”One enthusiast, overwhelmed by the volume of electronic mail he recieves every day and inspired by the film he had just seen about a devoted English butler, recently told me, ‘There is nothing to be afraid of. It’s not going to be HAL, but “Remains of the Day.”‘”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Community/Culture

Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction

Name of publication: Life on the Screen (book)

Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 4: Taking Things at Face Value

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 124

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney