If what is in store for us, as many say, is an “information age” with “information highways” and “information supermarkets” then it is the computer and those who feed and handle it who reign supreme: in the country of the sighted, the all-seeing one is king. Control of information is control of power.
Predictor: Sale, Kirkpatrick
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution,” Kirkpatrick Sale writes: ”If what is in store for us, as many say, is an ‘information age’ with ‘information highways’ and ‘information supermarkets’ then it is the computer and those who feed and handle it who reign supreme: in the country of the sighted, the all-seeing one is king. Control of information is control of power.”
Biography:Kirkpatrick Sale, an author and journalist, wrote a book titled “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution” that made him a leader of the neo-Luddites of the 1990s. “Luddites” generally believe that technological advances are an endangerment to society. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Jurisdiction/Control
Name of publication: Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution
Title, headline, chapter name: The Imposition of Technology
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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