The prediction, in brief:

A modem, a PC, and the intent to destabilize might prove a more serious threat to the established order than any military invasion.

Predictor: Rushkoff, Douglas

Prediction, in context:

In his 1994 book “Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace,” Douglas Rushkoff writes:”Rather than create an easy-to-monitor world, the end of the industrial era left us with an almost infinite series of electronic passages. The passages proved the perfect playground for the dendrites of expanding young consciouness, and the perfect back doors to the power centers of the modern world. A modem, a PC, and the intent to destabilize might prove a more serious threat to the established order than any military invasion.”

Biography:

Douglas Rushkoff, an author, social theorist, journalist and software developer, wrote the book “Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace,” (Harper San Francisco, 1994) a best-selling portrait of the 1990s cyberculture. He edited “The Gen X Reader” (Ballantine, 1994), a collection of writings by the elusive, media-wary “slacker” generation. He also wrote “Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture” (Ballantine, 1994). In the 1990s, he regularly contributed features about pop-culture, media and technology to magazines. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)

Date of prediction: January 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics

Subtopic: Peacekeeping/Warfare

Name of publication: Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 16: Cracking the Ice

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 206

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stewart, Ben L.