Futurists make much of the collapse of time and space that is being ushered in by world telecommunications and the microchip … The new political infrastructure of the Net is as handy to Shell Oil as it is to a bedroom publisher of politically incorrect zines. Cyberspace is full of armchair mavericks and eccentric ideologues. But despite originality and political diversity gyrating on the Net, the onrushing logic of the integration of the world economy and world politics into a single unified whole may overshadow these distinctions, just as the boundaries between nations are becoming anachronistic in the face of the “global marketplace.”
Predictor: Kinney, Jay
Prediction, in context:For a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Jay Kinney, publisher and editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions, writes: ”Futurists make much of the collapse of time and space that is being ushered in by world telecommunications and the microchip … The new political infrastructure of the Net is as handy to Shell Oil as it is to a bedroom publisher of politically incorrect zines. Cyberspace is full of armchair mavericks and eccentric ideologues. But despite originality and political diversity gyrating on the Net, the onrushing logic of the integration of the world economy and world politics into a single unified whole may overshadow these distinctions, just as the boundaries between nations are becoming anachronistic in the face of the ‘global marketplace.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: ‘Anarcho-Emergentist-Republicans’: Is There a New Politics Emerging in the Net/Cyberspace/Digital Culture?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/netpolitics_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney