No doubt, some netcrawlers will be virulently anti-advirus. They’ll want Lysol-like software to scour and disinfect adviruses from any program before it can be displayed. We’ll see an epidemiological battle between the forces of digital commercialism and purists who think commerce has no place on The Net. Of course, we all know who’ll win that battle, don’t we?
Predictor: Schrage, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article about advertising in the digital age for Wired magazine, Michael Schrage, an MIT Media Lab fellow and columnist for Adweek magazine, writes: ”No doubt, some netcrawlers will be virulently anti-advirus. They’ll want Lysol-like software to scour and disinfect adviruses from any program before it can be displayed. We’ll see an epidemiological battle between the forces of digital commercialism and purists who think commerce has no place on The Net. Of course, we all know who’ll win that battle, don’t we?”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Advertising/PR
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Is Advertising Dead? Adviruses, digimercials and memegraphics: The Future of Advertising is the Future of Media
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.02/advertising_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney