Holographic Video … will be how you watch football games in the year 2010.
Predictor: Negroponte, Nicholas
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, Jeff Greenwald edited together a story on the “Seven Techno-Wonders of the World” as compiled by requesting input from 100 individuals “who have been, in our estimation, conspicuous beacons on the broad frontier of high technology.” The following predictive material was not contained in the top seven listed (the communications network, micromanufacturing, digital astronomy, senior citizens, the Human Genome Project, neuromantic drugs and immersive technology), but was among the also-rans. It was submitted by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of MIT’s Media Lab:”It would be hard not to include Holographic Video as one of the techno-wonders. It exists (the size of a tea cup, as of next Monday). It will be how you watch football games in the year 2010. Anything that needs 250,000 to 2,500,000 pixels PER SCAN LINE has got to be a techno-something.”
Biography:Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and a popular speaker and writer about technologies of the future, wrote one of the 1990s’ best-selling books about the new future of communications, “Being Digital.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: TV/Films/Video
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Wired Wonders: Rhodes Had its Colossus. We Have Our Old Folks
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/wired.wonders_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney