I have had a vision of the future. In it, we live in a virtual-reality environment and we spend all our waking hours as employees of the U.S. Electronic Postal Service. Wake me when it’s over.
Predictor: Reisman, Sorel
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 column for IEEE Software Journal, Sorell Reisman writes: ”In an era ripe with promises of an easier life I find myself reading and responding to more and more messages – often on subjects I don’t really care about. Of course, I am not the only person with an exceptional mail system. I’m getting lots of ‘new’ mail that I didn’t initiate from friends who have also discovered the wonder of their new, high-speed mailers. Everyone, it seems, feels it is better to send than receive … I have had a vision of the future. In it, we live in a virtual-reality environment and we spend all our waking hours as employees of the U.S. Electronic Postal Service. Wake me when it’s over.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Name of publication: IEEE Software Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: I Have Seen the Future: It Is Flooded With E-mail
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 111
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty