Pre-recorded media are all shifting to a computer. Soon, leaving your house to see a movie will be a rare occasion. Even now, more people rent movies than go to see them. Someday you won’t even have to leave home for that. All that media will be available through a wire into any room in your house – projected on your living room wall, or the screen of your watch.
Predictor: Hall, Justin Allyn
Prediction, in context:In this 1995 online essay, Justin Hall makes the statement:”Pre-recorded media are all shifting to a computer. Soon, leaving your house to see a movie will be a rare occasion. Even now, more people rent movies than go to see them. Someday you won’t even have to leave home for that. All that media will be available through a wire into any room in your house – projected on your living room wall, or the screen of your watch.”
Biography:Justin Hall worked briefly at Wired in 1994, during a sabbatical from his college days at Swarthmore. He started his own irreverent e-zine, covering diverse topics and providing links all over the Web. He later worked for ZDTV and Games.com and as a freelance journalist. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: July 21, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: TV/Films/Video
Name of publication: Links.net
Title, headline, chapter name: Computopia: Sharing Stories Humanizes Computer Connections
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.links.net/dox/tech/computopia.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Goodrich, Barbara J.