No matter what circumstances we face or predilections we harbor, the business of living is love. Getting love and keeping love. Manufacturing love. Making love. Making love stay. And no worldwide web of cool chips and hot wires is going to change that. So just shut up about your Brave New World, bub; we’ve all still got to live in the frightened old one.
Predictor: Mart, Philip
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, journalist Philip Mart says the Internet will become a great tool but will not change the human experience. He writes: ”No matter what circumstances we face or predilections we harbor, the business of living is love. Getting love and keeping love. Manufacturing love. Making love. Making love stay. And no worldwide web of cool chips and hot wires is going to change that. So just shut up about your Brave New World, bub; we’ve all still got to live in the frightened old one.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Relationships
Name of publication: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Title, headline, chapter name: Cyber Utopia a Mirage
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 19
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne