I think we’re just starting to see the potential of human beings, and the Net is starting to do that for us. In a very narrow sense – and I’m being ignorant here – all of human culture and history and effort so far has been sort of concentrating just so we can all get connected up together, and finally we are all getting connected up together, and now we’re going to see what happens.
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: ”The more people that learn how to use the Net, the more people participate in these transient social organizations, and the faster we evolve into a wonderful human culture that is really our birthright. I think we’re just starting to see the potential of human beings, and the Net is starting to do that for us. In a very narrow sense – and I’m being ignorant here – all of human culture and history and effort so far has been sort of concentrating just so we can all get connected up together, and finally we are all getting connected up together, and now we’re going to see what happens.”
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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