You can be sitting in your virtual-reality living room and see fish tanks over on a shelf. There won’t be fish in the tanks. In one there may be people shopping at a mall, a baseball game in another, a city council meeting going on in another, and maybe a real-estate office in the last. You’re hooked into a network with all these people while sitting in your living room. You can fly into the situation and join the scene of your choice. The extraordinary possibility is people share, create elements of a shared world.
Predictor: Lanier, Jaron
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Christian Science Monitor, Faye Bowers talks with virtual-reality entrepreneur Jaron Lanier. Bowers writes:”Lanier says he can see in 10 or 20 years from now ‘you can be sitting in your virtual-reality living room and see fish tanks over on a shelf. There won’t be fish in the tanks. In one there may be people shopping at a mall, a baseball game in another, a city council meeting going on in another, and maybe a real-estate office in the last. You’re hooked into a network with all these people while sitting in your living room. You can fly into the situation and join the scene of your choice. The extraordinary possibility is people share, create elements of a shared world.'”
Biography:Jaron Lanier was a pioneer of virtual reality and founder and former CEO of VPL. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: July 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Virtual Reality
Name of publication: Christian Science Monitor
Title, headline, chapter name: Virtual Reality Hooks Architect
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=2d5d8409adef204f3bbcc1ac6652b125&_docnum=18&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=0679200a164232124d8cba4ad7fb9e7f
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