The user community of the Internet will be in the mainstream of everyday life. Its demographics will look more and more like the demographics of the world itself … The true value of a network is less about information and more about community. The information superhighway is more than a short cut to every book in the Library of Congress. It is creating a totally new, global social fabric.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes: ”In the year 2000, more people will be entertaining themselves on the Internet than by look at what we call the networks today. The Internet will evolve beyond MUDs and MOOs … and start to serve up a broader range of entertainment … The user community of the Internet will be in the mainstream of everyday life. Its demographics will look more and more like the demographics of the world itself … The true value of a network is less about information and more about community. The information superhighway is more than a short cut to every book in the Library of Congress. It is creating a totally new, global social fabric.”
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: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Creating a Smaller World
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 14: Prime Time Is My Time
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 182, 183
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