Cyberspace will provide a three-dimensional field of action and interaction: with recorded and live data, with machines, sensors, and with other people. Beyond consequences in cyberspace, these interactions will also have consequences that reach directly back into the physical world, from the efficient running of corporations, governments, and small businesses, to the enrichment of our individual lives with entertainment and communicationÉin short, to our real health, wealth, and happiness.
Predictor: Benedikt, Michael
Prediction, in context:In his early 1990s essay, “Cyberspace: Some Proposals,” which was published in a collection he edited, “Cyberspace: First Steps,” Michael Benedikt, writes: ”In a way, cyberspace is the future of both graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and of networked text-games based on the place metaphor such as TinyMUDÉ For cyberspace will not be just a description or staging of an uncanny reality – a matter of mental effect as in a novel, play, movie, or video game. More like GUIs, it will institute a virtual realty as a functional, objective component of physical reality. Cyberspace will provide a three-dimensional field of action and interaction: with recorded and live data, with machines, sensors, and with other people. Beyond consequences in cyberspace, these interactions will also have consequences that reach directly back into the physical world, from the efficient running of corporations, governments, and small businesses, to the enrichment of our individual lives with entertainment and communicationÉin short, to our real health, wealth, and happiness.”
Biography:Michael L. Benedikt founded the International Conference on Cyberspace in 1991. He is author of “For an Architecture of Reality” (Lumen Books, 1987), and author/editor of “Cyberspace: First Steps” (MIT Press, 1991). He lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Cyberspace: First Steps
Title, headline, chapter name: Cyberspace: Some Proposals
Quote Type: Direct quote
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