The Net will include TV, radio, all the cash-register data in the world, every traffic sensor in the world. It won’t be just people talking to each other. It will be people talking to machines, and machines talking to each other.
Predictor: Kelly, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Newsweek, writers Steven Levy, Katie Hafner and Roger Adams quote Kevin Kelly, the editor of Wired magazine. They write: ”Some projections of where the Internet will take us are so sweeping that the only response is a dumb nod. ‘The Net will include TV, radio, all the cash-register data in the world, every traffic sensor in the world,’ says Wired’s Kevin Kelly. ‘It won’t be just people talking to each other. It will be people talking to machines, and machines talking to each other.'”
Biography:Kevin Kelly was the author of the book “Out of Control” and the first executive editor of the highly influential Wired magazine. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: December 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: The Year of the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 26
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