Increasingly, there is going to be this virtual world out there … We need to educate young people about being good network citizens. Many people have no understanding of the damage that can be done via a computer network.
Predictor: Hafner, Katie
Prediction, in context:After their book “Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier,” was published in 1991, authors Katie Hafner and John Markoff appeared in a chat on America Online, and that conversation was later published in Compute. The answers from Hafner and Markoff are posted with the label “Cyber”: ”Q: Where do you think this cyber-culture is going? What do you think its values will be?” ”Cyber: The Internet is absolutely exploding. Cyberpunks will remain a part of this just as criminals [remain] in the rest of society, but increasingly, there is going to be this virtual world out there. Electronic communities like [America Online] … We recommend that you read Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel ‘True Names,’ which takes today’s BBS society and computers and assumes infinite bandwidth and MIPS. It’s the best description of the way the future network world will look … We need to educate young people about being good network citizens. Many people have no understanding of the damage that can be done via a computer network.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Ethics/Values
Name of publication: Compute
Title, headline, chapter name: Cyberpunk
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web2.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/717/324/37704024w2/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A11666483&dyn=5!xrn_1_0_A11666483?sw_aep=ncliveec
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