The True Masters of the Universe are not freemasons, mergers-and-acquisitions specialists, or venture capitalists but the members of a voluntary association of tech wizards that create and oversee the technological future of the Internet. It is the IETF’s work on tough technical problems that will make possible the whiz-bang Net applications of the future.
Predictor: Borsook, Paulina
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Paulina Borsook explains the workings of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the group behind the Internet’s protocols and engineering. Borsook writes: ”The Internet, perhaps the greatest instantiation of self-organization the planet has ever seen, evolves in its fractious decentralized way through the Internet Engineering Task Force, the IETF. Which means, in the cyber ’90s, that the True Masters of the Universe are not freemasons, mergers-and-acquisitions specialists, or venture capitalists but the members of a voluntary association of tech wizards that create and oversee the technological future of the Internet. It is the IETF’s work on tough technical problems that will make possible the whiz-bang Net applications of the future.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: How Anarchy Works: On Location with the Masters of the Metaverse, the Internet Engineering Task Force
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.10/ietf_pr.html
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