While we’re wiring people up we’re destroying old cultures. It’s great to have the idea of a global village, but it can resemble (the 1950s TV show) “The Prisoner,” where everyone lives in a perfect village, but everyone is a number. Everyone is a prisoner.
Predictor: Gentry, Tom
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The Modesto Bee, Rusty Coats, interviews Tom Gentry, a professor at Stanislaus State University. Coats writes: ”‘While we’re wiring people up,’ Gentry said, ‘we’re destroying old cultures. It’s great to have the idea of a global village, but it can resemble (the 1950s TV show) “The Prisoner,” where everyone lives in a perfect village, but everyone is a number. Everyone is a prisoner.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction
Name of publication: Modesto Bee
Title, headline, chapter name: Info-Culture Technology: Savior or Destroyer of Society?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=9242440c133a8b4f8b92228020e63450...
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