The central issues to consider as our telecommunication networks reach toward greater presence is whether they will isolate or re-unite us, deliver diversity through the NII or place each living unit at the end of its own road.
Predictor: Acker, Stephen R.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Stephen R. Acker of the Communication Department/Center for the Advanced Study of Telecommunications at The Ohio State University discusses collaboration in a virtual world. He writes: ÒSupported by improved telecommunications and improved transportation networks, many of our communities now reflect population densities uncomfortably in the middle: underpopulated for diversity, over-populated for autonomy. Driven by a culture of urgency, the inhabitants lack the time to enjoy the virtues of either diversity or autonomy if either were obtained. The central issues to consider as our telecommunication networks reach toward greater presence is whether they will isolate or re-unite us, deliver diversity through the NII or place each living unit at the end of its own road.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Relationships
Name of publication: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/acker/ACKTEXT.HTM
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne