We will get fully interactive digital multimedia in ways you can only experience in the research lab today … [Imagine a place where] we can navigate the world vicariously, where we will pour out our recipes, opinions of what is good about places, see what other people see, not what establishments want us to see, where we will much more quickly transact for things we are used to doing on the telephone or in person.
Predictor: Beaulieu, Mark
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in the San Francisco Examiner, reporter Zillah Bahar writes about pursuing culinary interests on the Internet. She interviews food professional Mark Beaulieu, writing: ”Years into the future, Mark Beaulieu, founder of the Digital Restaurant Guide to San Francisco, sees us projecting digital personas into cyberspace to engage in a dynamic exchange of ideas on gastronomy, and everything else people care about, that is unprecedented in its scope and speed. Beaulieu’s vision is predicated on the Internet’s remaining a free and democratic medium, uncensored by big government and corporate hegemony. ‘The big break and excitement to come will be the cable Internet,’ says Beaulieu, a software engineer at Sony New Technologies in Monterey. ‘Here we will get fully interactive digital multimedia in ways you can only experience in the research lab today.’ He envisions a place in which ‘we can navigate the world vicariously, where we will pour out our recipes, opinions of what is good about places, see what other people see, not what establishments want us to see, where we will much more quickly transact for things we are used to doing on the telephone or in person.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: San Francisco Examiner
Title, headline, chapter name: The Future of Food in Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Epicure Page Z-6
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney