Cars will have smart radios, energy control, and information displays as the predominant population of digital devices. In addition, automobiles will enjoy another very practical benefit of being digital: they will know where they are … When your smart car of the future is stolen, it can call you up and tell you exactly where it is. Perhaps it will even sound frightened.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes:”Cars will have smart radios, energy control, and information displays as the predominant population of digital devices. In addition, automobiles will enjoy another very practical benefit of being digital: they will know where they are … When your smart car of the future is stolen, it can call you up and tell you exactly where it is. Perhaps it will even sound frightened.”
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: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Being Digital (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 17: Digital Fables and Foibles
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 216, 217
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