I don’t think anyone would have said that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were addicted to the Agora. The computer nets are the modern Agora, serving a role similar to talk radio and tabloid journalism, but with more participation, less sensationalism, and more thinking between remarks.
Predictor: Kort, Barry
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 – quotes Barry Kort, a founder of a MUD for children:”I don’t think anyone would have said that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were addicted to the Agora. The computer nets are the modern Agora, serving a role similar to talk radio and tabloid journalism, but with more participation, less sensationalism, and more thinking between remarks.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Social Withdrawal/Addiction
Name of publication: Life on the Screen (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 9: Virtuality and its Discontents
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 249
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