Storytelling is cathartic in any medium. The Web offers widespread communication, community … Sharing stories online, we can pool experience and memory to ease our pain and expand our horizons.
Predictor: Hall, Justin Allyn
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 online essay, Justin Hall makes the statement: ”I’ve spent endless hours a week on a computer since I was seven. Thirteen years of bits and bytes, and I’m just now discovering the underlying zeitgeist. It took the Internet to make me a believer. In the eighties, I consulted, teaching people how computers could enhance their lives. But it was hard to evangelize a DOS machine running Word Perfect as a quality of life enhancement; the learning curve was too great, the process and product too obtuse. The Net is different … Storytelling is cathartic in any medium. The Web offers widespread communication, community … Sharing stories online, we can pool experience and memory to ease our pain and expand our horizons.”
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: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
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: Anderson, Janna Quitney