Even if you don’t cruise the superhighway, your personal profile will. A portrait of you in 1’s and 0’s, the language of computers, will exist in cyberspace. The profile could be so complete that it will be like having another self living in a parallel dimension; it is a self you cannot see, but one that affects your life just the same. Even if you do not own a personal computer and never intend to, you are part of the revolution.
Predictor: Alderman, Ellen
Prediction, in context:In their 1995 book “The Right to Privacy,” Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy write: ”The so-called information superhighway, a global network of databases, will only make more information more accessible to more people. Even if you don’t cruise the superhighway, your personal profile will. A portrait of you in 1’s and 0’s, the language of computers, will exist in cyberspace. The profile could be so complete that it will be like having another self living in a parallel dimension; it is a self you cannot see, but one that affects your life just the same. Even if you do not own a personal computer and never intend to, you are part of the revolution.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance
Name of publication: The Right to Privacy
Title, headline, chapter name: Privacy and Information
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 326
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