Today and for the next 20 years, those who are awake, and able and willing, will be playing that same defining role in what is surely going to be a radical transformation of all we hear, see, and know. And what a piece of great, good luck it will be to have been present at the creation.
Predictor: Diller, Barry
Prediction, in context:A 1995 article for Wired magazine, carried the keynote address delivered by QVC CEO Barry Diller at the American Magazine Conference in Laguna Niguel, California. Diller also served as chair and CEO of Fox Inc. and worked as an executive at ABC and Paramount, and his words come from those experiences. Diller says: ”I always thought I was unlucky not to have been alive around 1915, when the motion-picture industry began to break free of the constraints of the Edison-controlled Motion Picture Trust. When Adolph Zukor began to create the infrastructure for what would become the movie industry. Or a decade or two later, when General Sarnoff and Bill Paley figured out how to create the first mass engines of communications with radio and television. Those were uncertain, dramatic, revolutionary times, when people with open minds and ambition remade the world. Today and for the next 20 years, those who are awake, and able and willing, will be playing that same defining role in what is surely going to be a radical transformation of all we hear, see, and know. And what a piece of great, good luck it will be to have been present at the creation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Don’t Repackage – Redefine! We Have to Resist Media Imperialism – the Tendency to Colonize, to Define New Technologies in Terms of the Old
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.02/diller_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney