Everything you ever wanted to do, you’ll be able to do. You want to be a jaguar in the jungle? They’ll put your brain on a chip, put it in the jaguar and boom! There will be no limits, man! None.
Predictor: Scheer, Christopher
Prediction, in context:Christopher Scheer wrote the following in a 1995 essay for The Nation magazine:”There’s a certain glassy-eyed look we associate with cults… About ten years ago I started seeing that look on other people’s faces when they talked about technology. Of course, they didn’t use that word. They didn’t say, ‘Wow, I like technology.’ That would’ve sounded silly. Instead, they talked about ‘the future’ and all the goodies it would have in it – multimedia information supernets, interactive TV, virtual reality, brain cartridges, sneakers as smart as Einstein that talk to your lamp. These were friends of mine, people I cared for. They weren’t Moonies, not scary people, just a little geeky about electronic toys … But then along came Mondo2000 and Wired and the Great Internet Hype. Time, Newsweek and the dailies took the cue, madly assigning stories on the ‘future’ and the ‘Net.’ … The ante has been upped. The computer geeks have somehow taken the culture by storm … A couple of months back I found myself on a late-night backseat ride with a fortysomething fan of the future. He leaned close to give me his vision of it: ‘Everything you ever wanted to do, you’ll be able to do. You want to be a jaguar in the jungle? They’ll put your brain on a chip, put it in the jaguar and boom! There will be no limits, man! None.’ He had already envisioned himself as a god – and liked it quite a bit.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Virtual Reality
Name of publication: The Nation
Title, headline, chapter name: The Pursuit of Techno-Happiness
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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