I think what you will find is that the kids who are using the Net will learn how to use the stuff without any problem at all, and they’ll feel right at home, and when they’re 25 they won’t understand why a 25-year-old would think that anonymous FTP is a difficult thing to learn how to use any more than, at your age, you think how anybody could think that driving is difficult to use.
Predictor: Hahn, Harley
Prediction, in context:Harley Hahn made the following remark in a Q-A interview with a writer from the online magazine Voices From the Net: ”I think what you will find is that the kids who are using the Net will learn how to use the stuff without any problem at all, and they’ll feel right at home, and when they’re 25 they won’t understand why a 25-year-old would think that anonymous FTP is a difficult thing to learn how to use any more than, at your age, you think how anybody could think that driving is difficult to use.”
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: Communication
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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