It’s a democratic anarchy. There’s nobody in charge. There’s no police, there’s no rules, there’s only etiquette and guidelines. Wouldn’t you love to live in a world where everything is run by etiquette rather than rules and law? And people enforce things because they want to be nice people and they voluntarily act nice rather than having police or parents or teachers telling you what to do.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remarks in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”If you look at any social organization we’ve ever had, from living with one other person, to countries to communities, to businesses to non-profit organizations, this large global network that we call the Net works better than any organization we’ve ever had. There’s less fighting; there’s less bickering. It’s a democratic anarchy. There’s nobody in charge. There’s no police, there’s no rules, there’s only etiquette and guidelines. Wouldn’t you love to live in a world where everything is run by etiquette rather than rules and law? And people enforce things because they want to be nice people and they voluntarily act nice rather than having police or parents or teachers telling you what to do.”
Biography:Harley Hahn was a technology author, analyst and consultant and a prolific writer of books about computers and the Internet in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Voices From the Net
Title, headline, chapter name: Harley Hahn: Author
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp000317.txt
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