What I’m concerned by is this becoming a potentially all-transforming event that’s going to change not only how I live but how my children live. I don’t believe it’s merely going to be auxiliary. I think it’s going to be absolutely central.
Predictor: Birkerts, Sven
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 HarperÕs Magazine article, four experts on the impact of modern computing and telecommunications technology debate the effects of such technology on modern society. The article includes comments by Sven Birkerts, the author of “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age,” published by Faber and Faber, an excerpt from which appeared in the May 1994 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Birkerts says: ”What I’m concerned by is this becoming a potentially all-transforming event that’s going to change not only how I live but how my children live. I don’t believe it’s merely going to be auxiliary. I think it’s going to be absolutely central.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Harper's Magazine
Title, headline, chapter name: What Are We Doing On-line? A Debate on the Social Consequences of Online Communications
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 35 - 46
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne