Our global web of digital systems is fast unfolding toward a degree of complexity rich enough to support a staggering diversity of autonomously evolving programs.
Predictor: Langton, Chris
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Julian Dibbell covers the concept that the study of computer viruses and worms can lead to gains for networking and computing, quoting Chris Langton, an artificial-life researcher. Dibbell writes: ”‘We’re just going to have to live with them,’ artificial-life researcher Chris Langton says of computer viruses. Our global web of digital systems, he predicts, is fast unfolding toward a degree of complexity rich enough to support a staggering diversity of autonomously evolving programs.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Viruses/Worms
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Viruses Are Good For You: Spawn of the Devil, Computer Viruses May Help Us Realize the Full Potential of the Net
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.02/viruses_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney