More deregulation awaits us. This will mean the end of cable company monopolies, and the beginning of a new era of computer-integrated interactive entertainment, consumerism, and education.
Predictor: Benedikt, Michael L.
Prediction, in context:In a lecture at the “New Urbanism Symposium” at Princeton Oct. 17, 1992, that was also developed into a chapter for the book “The New Urbanism,” Michael Benedikt says: ”The ability of dis-located information to cognitively occlude one’s surroundings is a function of only two factors: (1) the relative salience of the dis-located (and dis-locating) information, and (2) its sensory dominance. With all this put on the table, it is time now to turn to those two latest developments in information technology, namely, the networked computer, and the technology that goes by the name of ‘virtual reality’ or VR. The first excels at salience, the second at sensory dominance, and the two together could significantly displace reality as we know it … The Federal Communications Commission recently licensed regional telephone companies to transmit commercial television and video services for the first time via optical fiber. More deregulation awaits us. This will mean the end of cable company monopolies, and the beginning of a new era of computer-integrated interactive entertainment, consumerism, and education. Hardly a week goes by without some major alliance formed between communication, computer, and entertainment companies.”
Date of prediction: October 17, 1992
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The New Urbanism
Title, headline, chapter name: Cityspace, Cyberspace and the Spatiology of Information
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/center/benedikt_articles/cityspace.html
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