Cyberspace can be seen as extending an inexorable process that began a long, long time ago and which gained new impetus earlier this century, namely the dematerialization of buildings.
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: ”Cyberspace can be seen as extending an inexorable process that began a long, long time ago and which gained new impetus earlier this century, namely the dematerialization of buildings. Indeed, architecture’s most progressive practitioners and theorists of the day are already approaching the limit, the last steps, of the conversion of architecture’s proper constructional and material discourse into its purely intellectual, graphical, and logical content. It is with the development of virtual-reality technology and of high-speed computer networks that these ‘last steps’ of architecture, rather than regrettable can be welcomed, not as last steps at all, but the first unwitting steps into a new, parallel, and alternative architecture, into a new, parallel, and alternative realm for Being called cyberspace.”
Date of prediction: October 17, 1992
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
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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