The potential for the Net for people to communicate is much larger than the newspapers and radio and television. I see the Net as being our best hope, in fact, our inevitable hope, and it definitely will happen, for the world finally starting to become a global community and everybody just getting along with everyone else.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remarks in a 1993 Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”If we are allowed free and unfettered communication, free and adequate communication between ourselves, we will want to be peaceful, we will want to help each other, we will want to get along… I think that the potential for the Net for people to communicate is much larger than the newspapers and radio and television. I see the Net as being our best hope, in fact, our inevitable hope, and it definitely will happen, for the world finally starting to become a global community and everybody just getting along with everyone else.”
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: Global Relationships/Politics
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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