As the business world globalizes and the Internet grows, we will start to see a seamless digital workplace … Bits will be borderless, stored and manipulated with absolutely no respect to geopolitical boundaries. In fact, time zones will probably play a bigger role in our digital future than trade zones. I can imagine software projects that literally move around the world from east to west on a 24-hour cycle, from person to person or from group to group, one working as the other sleeps.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes: ”As the business world globalizes and the Internet grows, we will start to see a seamless digital workplace … Bits will be borderless, stored and manipulated with absolutely no respect to geopolitical boundaries. In fact, time zones will probably play a bigger role in our digital future than trade zones. I can imagine software projects that literally move around the world from east to west on a twenty-four-hour cycle, from person to person or from group to group, one working as the other sleeps.”
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: Epilogue: An Age of Optimism
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 228
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