It’s the largest gathering of human beings that has ever existed in the history of mankind and it’s getting larger and larger. It looks like it’s going to be the ancestor of something that eventually everybody will be able to gather whenever they want.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remarks in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer for the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”So ‘the Net’ can mean Internet, ‘the Net’ can mean Usenet, but that’s not the most interesting meaning to me. The most interesting meaning is that it’s sort of a global gathering place. It certainly doesn’t involve everyone in the world, not even most people in the world, not even most people in the United States and Europe and Japan and the developed countries, but it’s the largest gathering of human beings that has ever existed in the history of mankind and it’s getting larger and larger. It looks like it’s going to be the ancestor of something that eventually everybody will be able to gather whenever they want … I call it a large gathering, but that’s because I don’t have a better word. It’s something that never existed before in the history and culture of human beings, and that’s why it’s significant. Its sheer size ties the world together, or it’s beginning to, in a way that nobody even imagined was possible.”
Biography:Harley Hahn was a technology author, analyst and consultant and a prolific writer of books about computers and the Internet in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Voices From the Net
Title, headline, chapter name: Harley Hahn: Author
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp000317.txt
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