Sometime in the next millennium our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will watch a football game (if they call it that) by moving aside the coffee table (if they call it that) and letting eight-inch-high players run across the living room (if they call it that) passing a half-inch football back and forth… All the resolution is provided everywhere for any point of view. Wherever you look, you see 3-D pixels (sometimes called voxels or boxels) floating in space.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes:”Sometime in the next millennium our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will watch a football game (if they call it that) by moving aside the coffee table (if they call it that) and letting eight-inch-high players run across the living room (if they call it that) passing a half-inch football back and forth… All the resolution is provided everywhere for any point of view. Wherever you look, you see 3-D pixels (sometimes called voxels or boxels) floating in space.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: February 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: TV/Films/Video
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 9: 20/20 VR
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 122, 123
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne