What we call reality was only a temporary consensus anyway, a mere stage in the technique … The 21st century will give birth to the geysers of cyberspace, a sensory lava that will find its way through the cracks of that consensus. Computer hallucination will come in the foreground, as cinema verite and documentaries, and their trail of dogma about the real will recede in the distance.
Predictor: Stenger, Nicole
Prediction, in context:In her early 1990s essay, “Mind is a Leaking Rainbow,” which was published in the collection “Cyberspace: First Steps,” Nicole Stenger, a computer animation artist and director of the Group for the Study of Virtual Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz, writes: ”What we call reality was only a temporary consensus anyway, a mere stage in the technique … The 21st century will give birth to the geysers of cyberspace, a sensory lava that will find its way through the cracks of that consensus. Computer hallucination will come in the foreground, as cinema verite and documentaries, and their trail of dogma about the real will recede in the distance.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Virtual Reality
Name of publication: Cyberspace: First Steps
Title, headline, chapter name: Mind is a Leaking Rainbow
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 53
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