The prediction, in brief:

We need to acknowledge the importance of machines flat out and include them in our generalized political positions … I am not hopeful about this prospect, but it is still necessary to make the attempt. If no attempt is made, or if none is successful, then surely the Internet will be configured in the interests of the corporations and the nation state, though of course there are inherent resistances and intentional resistances under any circumstances.

Predictor: Poster, Mark

Prediction, in context:

In a 1994 e-mail interview with Erick Heroux, Mark Poster, a member of the humanities faculty at the University of California at Irvine and author of “The Second Media Age,” talks about the future of humans and machines:”We need to acknowledge the importance of machines flat out and include them in our generalized political positions … I am not hopeful about this prospect, but it is still necessary to make the attempt. If no attempt is made, or if none is successful, then surely the Internet will be configured in the interests of the corporations and the nation state, though of course there are inherent resistances and intentional resistances under any circumstances.”

Biography:

Mark Poster wrote the paper “Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere” in 1995 while teaching at the University of California, Irvine. He also wrote about technology for Wired magazine. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)

Date of prediction: October 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Community/Culture

Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction

Name of publication: University of Oregon Web site

Title, headline, chapter name: Interview With Mark Poster: Community, New Media; Post-humanism

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~ucurrent/2-Poster.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney