Digital networks such as the Internet, for example, are so flexible that it is practically impossible to imagine the range of architectural choices that lie ahead.
Predictor: Agre, Phil
Prediction, in context:In the November 1995 issue of his online newsletter The Network Observer, Phil Agre wrote: ”The rapid proliferation of new media … may call for a new type of analysis. Digital networks such as the Internet, for example, are so flexible that it is practically impossible to imagine the range of architectural choices that lie ahead. Indeed, the Internet is capable of simultaneously supporting a considerable range of facilities, each of which would count in normal times as a a separate medium. These media might in turn support a wide range of genres, which might fit into people’s lives in a wide variety of ways.”
Biography:Phillip E. Agre was an associate professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been the author of research studies on the Internet. He edited The Network Observer, an online newsletter on Internet issues. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Network Observer
Title, headline, chapter name: Designing Genres for New Media
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/tno/november-1995.html
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