As today’s cyberspaces – the space of the telephone, e-mail, MUDs, video-conferences, interactive TV and on-line data services – coalesce with today’s arcade – and museum-grade virtual worlds, logics will emerge that are informed by the reality coded into our bodies: the topo-logic, that is, of 4 million years of natural evolution as well as the mytho-logic of 100,000 years of human cultural evolution, layered upon the topo-logic and constrained by it.
Predictor: Benedikt, Michael L.
Prediction, in context:In his 1994 essay “Physics for Phantoms,” Michael Benedikt writes: ”When the terrain is swept clean and the air is electrons only, archetypes emerge to fill the vacuum. The power of institutions remains compelling in defining the relation of individual to law as transcribed into space and action, even when inverted. The question as a whole is ‘critical’ because as today’s cyberspaces – the space of the telephone, e-mail, MUDs, video-conferences, interactive TV and on-line data services – coalesce with today’s arcade – and museum-grade virtual worlds, logics will emerge that are informed by the reality coded into our bodies: the topo-logic, that is, of 4 million years of natural evolution as well as the mytho-logic of 100,000 years of human cultural evolution, layered upon the topo-logic and constrained by it.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: Softworlds Inc.
Title, headline, chapter name: Physics for Phantoms
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/center/benedikt_articles/physics.html
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