The prediction, in brief:

Wearing blackout goggles and a Lycra glove, or perhaps a full-body cybersuit, you might be plugging into your PC and mentally inhabiting space there. You might build yourself a room there. And decorate it. You might entertain good-looking friends there. You might fall in love.

Predictor: Sirius, R.U.

Prediction, in context:

In a 1992 article for The Washington Post, Martha Sherrill reveals the future according to R.U. Sirius (whose real name is Ken Goffman) and the writers at Mondo 2000, a cyberpunk magazine. Sherrill writes:”Siruis kept up a dialogue … about ‘downloading my mind into dataspace.’ He spoke with great hope about ‘the post-biological future.’ … ‘We are soft-core, decadent commercial anarchists,’ he explained … Happily for computer types, Mondo 2000 romanticizes them into valiant cyberpunks, daring electronic-age outlaws. ‘I think we are making a mythos for people to step into and fulfill,’ said Sirius … There are countless articles [in Mondo 2000] about recreational applications for virtual reality … And VR 10 years from now? [According to Mondo 2000, it might be like this:] Wearing blackout goggles and a Lycra glove, or perhaps a full-body cybersuit, you might be plugging into your PC and mentally inhabiting space there. You might build yourself a room there. And decorate it. You might entertain good-looking friends there. You might fall in love. In Mondo 2000, there are many, many, many articles about ‘dildonics,’ the term for VR sex. Cybersolutions are everywhere, too, for problems from cancer to pollution. The mood is hopeful. the future is a nice place to wind up … ‘I’m upbeat in the final analysis,’ said Sirius.”

Date of prediction: February 1, 1992

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: Virtual Reality

Name of publication: Washington Post

Title, headline, chapter name: Virtually Unreal! A Mag For the Millennium; At Mondo 2000, They’re Writing the Future Now

Quote Type: Paraphrase

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=cb95779f5f2d39cedd657eca30d23812&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=2f9b689c3184f1f6dba68eff4c0b7b78

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty