The prediction, in brief:

In time, the detained and perhaps painful reexamination of the constraints, laws, and opportunities of the natural and physical life-world necessarily undertaken by cyberspace’s first designers will become less frequent and less necessary. The second generation of builders will find that the new reality has its own, seemingly self-evident, rules.

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:”Like the real world, cyberspace will continue to enlarge, to fill in, ‘complexify,’ evolve, and involve, indefinitely. In time, the detained and perhaps painful reexamination of the constraints, laws, and opportunities of the natural and physical life-world necessarily undertaken by cyberspace’s first designers will become less frequent and less necessary. The second generation of builders will find that the new reality has its own, seemingly self-evident, rules.”

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: Controversial Issues

Subtopic: Jurisdiction/Control

Name of publication: Cyberspace: First Steps

Title, headline, chapter name: Cyberspace: Some Proposals

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 132

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