The Internet is not only going to be a site for the contest of ideas and values, which is what museums do; it could very well be the site of a serious struggle for control of our culture.
Predictor: Ross, David
Prediction, in context:For a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Michael Sand interviews David Ross, the director of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Sand quotes Ross saying: ”Here is an environment whose baseline vocabulary is being formulated by a wonderful congregation of anarchists, artists, technofreaks, and other assorted weirdos; as a result, it’s very rich and very open. My fear, of course, is that the forces of Newt Gingrich will descend upon it, regulate it, regularize it, commodify it, and kill it. And that would be cause for real mourning … But they can’t own it. Not yet. And there will be an awful lot of underground resistance. The Internet is not only going to be a site for the contest of ideas and values, which is what museums do; it could very well be the site of a serious struggle for control of our culture.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Accommodating the Velocity: The Whitney’s David Ross Knows that the Museum will be Completely Transformed by the New Technology
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/ross_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney