How are we going use the computer?! What do you use that technology for?! Here’s how: it’s going to be used for the dominance and exploitation of nature for our benefit … I’m not asking you to worship nature. I’m asking for a regard for nature.
Predictor: Sale, Kirkpatrick
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, editor Kevin Kelly interviews Kirkpatrick Sale, the historian and author of “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution,” in which he assails the Internet and computers as a danger to the planet. Kelly says, “It is possible to make an improved, smarter, wiser, more organic technology that can serve us better,” and Sale replies: ”Right! That is to say, using up the world’s resources at a faster rate! … How are we going use the computer?! What do you use that technology for?! Here’s how: it’s going to be used for the dominance and exploitation of nature for our benefit … I’m not asking you to worship nature. I’m asking for a regard for nature.”
Biography:Kirkpatrick Sale, an author and journalist, wrote a book titled “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution” that made him a leader of the neo-Luddites of the 1990s. “Luddites” generally believe that technological advances are an endangerment to society. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview with the Luddite: Kirkpatrick Sale is a Leader of the Neo-Luddites. Wire’s Kevin Kelly Wrote the Book on Neo-Biological Technology. Food Fight, Anyone?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/saleskelly_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney