Cyberspaces will require constant planning and management. The structures proliferating within it will require design, and the people who design these structures will be called cyberspace architects … Theirs will be the task of visualizing the intrinsically non-physical and giving inhabitable form to society’s most intricate abstractions, processes, and organs of information. And all the while they will be re-realizing in a virtual world, in cyberspace, many vital aspects of the physical world, in particular those orderings and pleasures which have always belonged to architecture and the artifactual landscape.
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: ”As an architect, I am interested in my profession and its future, and I think one can safely say this: Cyberspaces will require constant planning and management. The structures proliferating within it will require design, and the people who design these structures will be called cyberspace architects. Schooled along with their brethren ‘real-space’ architects and urban designers, cyberspace architects will design electronic edifices that are fully as complex, functional, unique, involving, and beautiful as their physical counterparts – if not more so – and the ways that these are disposed in the electronic landscape. Theirs will be the task of visualizing the intrinsically non-physical and giving inhabitable form to society’s most intricate abstractions, processes, and organs of information. And all the while they will be re-realizing in a virtual world, in cyberspace, many vital aspects of the physical world, in particular those orderings and pleasures which have always belonged to architecture and the artifactual landscape.”
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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