The philosopher-kings-cum-cyberpunks who will interiorize the form of virtual space and create a new realm of writing are still a generation or two away.
Predictor: Doherty, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer-Mediated Communication magazine, Michael Doherty, a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, writes: ”MOOspace is beyond a doubt an intriguing, timely and potentially wonderful tool for writing. It is not yet a realm; it is not yet a comfortable commonplace. So when Heim jokes, ‘Cyberspace is Platonism as a working product,’ he is quite in error; the philosopher-kings-cum-cyberpunks who will interiorize the form of virtual space and create a new realm of writing are still a generation or two away.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: MOOs/MUDs/B-Boards/Newsgroups
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: MOO as Tool, MOO as Realm: A Response to Don Langham
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/nov/moo.html
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