On the Net each person can be an unlicensed TV station … Every home movie won’t be a prime-time experience (thank God). But we can now think of mass media as a great deal more than high-production-value, professional TV … In the near future, individuals will be able to run electronic video serves in the same way that 57,000 Americans run computer bulletin boards … In a few years you can learn how to make couscous from Julia Child or a Moroccan housewife. You can discover wines with Robert Parker or a Burgundian vintner.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Being Digital,” Nicholas Negroponte writes:”On the Net each person can be an unlicensed TV station. Three and a half million camcorders were sold in the United States during 1993. Every home movie won’t be a prime-time experience (thank God). But we can now think of mass media as a great deal more than high-production-value, professional TV … In the near future, individuals will be able to run electronic video serves in the same way that 57,000 Americans run computer bulletin boards… That’s a television landscape of the future that is starting to look like the Internet, populated by small information producers. In a few years you can learn how to make couscous from Julia Child or a Moroccan housewife. You can discover wines with Robert Parker or a Burgundian vintner.”
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: TV/Films/Video
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:
Page 176
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