With the touch of a button, we’ll be able to log on to our computers to have a look at what our computers collected for us during the day, based on our preprogrammed interests. Today, of course, we’ve pretty much got to take the information handed to us by media companies. Tomorrow, we decide what we want to see and hear and who we want to talk to. It will be empowering, to say the least.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Marcia Stepanek of Hearst Newspapers interviews scholars about their views of the expected impact of communications networks, quoting Nicholas Negroponte, a founder of MIT’s Media Lab. Stepanek writes:”‘With the superhighway, we’ll be able to pull information that interests us off this massive information highway – and only the information we want to know about, whether it’s French cooking or news from Asia or Ornette Coleman’s latest jazz composition,’ says Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab. ‘Then, with the touch of a button, we’ll be able to log on to our computers to have a look at what our computers collected for us during the day, based on our preprogrammed interests. Today, of course, we’ve pretty much got to take the information handed to us by media companies. Tomorrow, we decide what we want to see and hear and who we want to talk to. It will be empowering, to say the least.'”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: March 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Title, headline, chapter name: Scholars Try to Measure the Impact
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=a2da499fc860f603f890270e01d5c693&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=c06b25b68e8d45fca948131279df77d3
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