All of our culture – advertising, business, laws, government agencies, newspapers, public opinion – is all going to start to be part of the Net like it is part of our newspapers, telephone, postal system and so on. We’re going to embrace this part of our culture and things are going to change a lot.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remark in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer for the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”There’s going to be enormous change in the Net. There’s something that just happened in the last year, and it’s hard to characterize, except we’ll look back and we’ll figure out what it was, that some great fundamental change happened in the Net and people are starting to perceive that it’s a necessity of life, and now all of our culture – advertising, business, laws, government agencies, newspapers, public opinion – is all going to start to be part of the Net like it is part of our newspapers, telephone, postal system and so on. We’re going to embrace this part of our culture and things are going to change a lot.”
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: Community/Culture
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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