The real experiment I’m trying to do is e-mail science. The “anomalous heat” project is just an excuse. I think this is the media of the future.
Predictor: Droege, Tom
Prediction, in context:In his 1993 article on the way professional researchers work online, Mike Holderness quotes Tom Droege. Holderness writes about a comment made to him by Bruce Lewenstein of Cornell University, in which Lewenstein quotes Droege: ”Lewenstein quotes Tom Droege, who is [researching] ‘anomalous heat ‘ production from palladium electrodes in heavy water – the notorious cold fusion experiment – in his basement laboratory. Droege communicates and discusses all his results publicly on the Internet – finding negative interest from his work colleagues at Fermilab. ‘ … the real experiment I’m trying to do is e-mail science. The ‘anomalous heat’ project is just an excuse. I think this is the media of the future.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Name of publication: Times (London) Higher Education Supplement
Title, headline, chapter name: Greetings from the Twilight Zone
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/the-invi.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney