I really think that there is a watershed here, starting with computers in the ’50s and the Net in the ’80s and ’90s, that you’ll look back and everything before that will be called primitive times.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made these remarks in an 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices from the Net: ”This is really the beginning of human culture right now starting in the early 1990s, and what we’re seeing is far more wonderful and exciting and interesting than anything that anybody ever dreamed of before. I really think that there is a watershed here, starting with computers in the ’50s and the Net in the ’80s and ’90s, that you’ll look back and everything before that will be called primitive times.”
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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