If the price to be paid for efficient and secure Web commerce and e-mail is an online ID registry and the abolition of anonymous messages – or if opponents of digitized porn, inflammatory postings, or other messy side effects of the First Amendment manage to “clean up cyberspace” – we may find the Net’s much-vaunted freedom jettisoned in the rush to stake claims on virtual gold mines.
Predictor: Kinney, Jay
Prediction, in context:For a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Jay Kinney, publisher and editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions, writes: ”Ironically, it is not at all certain that the civil-liberties part of the libertarian agenda will survive in the process. If the price to be paid for efficient and secure Web commerce and e-mail is an online ID registry and the abolition of anonymous messages – or if opponents of digitized porn, inflammatory postings, or other messy side effects of the First Amendment manage to ‘clean up cyberspace’ – we may find the Net’s much-vaunted freedom jettisoned in the rush to stake claims on virtual gold mines.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: ‘Anarcho-Emergentist-Republicans’: Is There a New Politics Emerging in the Net/Cyberspace/Digital Culture?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/netpolitics_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney