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These were selected from the 4,200
statements included in the Early '90s Predictions
Database. For more details regarding the original
publication of these quotes, use the '90s
Database Search - see link at left.
In the world of the
future, people will
use low-cost Radio Shack equipment to spy on themselves
to find out who they are. -
Eric Hughes, 1992
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Cyberspace without carefully laid
channels of choice may become a waste of space. -
Michael Heim, 1992
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Computers will no
longer be a place to
hide from girls or zits or lack of social skills, as it
was for many of us. - David Liddle, 1993
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The role of
capital as an editor
is being removed. -
R.U. Sirius (real name, Ken Goffman),
1993
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We should
have learning
centers, neighborhood electronic cottages ... [but] it
would be easier to get the Pope to become a Buddhist than
to get the schools to change. -
Ed Lyell, 1993
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Video conferencing
bears a terrifying
promise: Distance will no longer be an excuse for not
attending meetings. -
Steve Steinberg, 1994
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The Internet will be to
women in the
'90s what the vibrator was to women in the '70s.
It's going to have that power. - Lisa Palac,
1994
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The value of
information about
information can be greater than the value of the
information itself. -
Nicholas Negroponte, 1994
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Faith in law will
not be an effective
strategy for high-tech companies. -
John Perry Barlow, 1994
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There's a big cinder
block stuck on the
technology accelerator pedal, and we're only gonna go
faster and faster, never stopping. -
William Gibson, 1994
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Telemolesters
will lurk. Telethugs
will reach out and punch someone. -
William Mitchell, 1994
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From now on, the
struggle will not be
over mechanical control of the means of information, but
over spin-control of the zeitgeist. -
Bruce Sterling, 1994
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Much care has to be
taken with design
and education in order for the change to be positive. We
don't have natural defenses against fat, sugar, salt,
alcohol, alkaloids - or media. -
Alan Kay, 1994
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The computer
will increasingly
replace the commuter. -
Gerald Celente, 1994
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I'm looking forward to
the day when my
daughter finds a rolled-up 1,000-pixel-by-1,000-pixel
color screen in her cereal packet, with a magnetic back
so it sticks to the fridge. -
Tim Berners-Lee, 1995
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The Internet, with its
open, distributed
structure, was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. If
it can do that, it can withstand corporate America. -
Barry Shell, 1995
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Most things that succeed
don't require
retraining 250 million people. - Waring Partridge,
1995
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We have to
resist media
imperialism - the tendency to colonize, to define new
technologies in terms of the old ... Redefine, don't
repackage. -
Barry Diller, 1995
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Hackers are going
to help us find ways
to have a more humanized system of commerce. -
Steven Levy, 1995
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We never will
get 100 percent
accuracy - [intelligent] agents will always make
mistakes. -
Pattie Maes, 1995
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There is nothing to be
afraid of. It's
not going to be HAL, but "Remains of the Day."
- An Internet enthusiast (quoted by researcher Sherry
Turkle) using fictional servants from popular films to
explain the ideal intelligent agents, 1995
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The Internet is more
like a social space
than a thing so that its effects are more like those of
Germany than those of hammers. -
Mark Poster, 1995
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Tim Berners-Lee
forgot to make an
expiry date compulsory ... any information can just be
left and forgotten. It could stay on the network until it
is five years out of date. - Brian Carpenter,
1995
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[Encryption] just has to
cost more to break
than it would cost the bad guys to bribe your cleaning
lady. -
Stewart Baker
~~~
We techies should
be more honest about
what computers can do and what they cannot do, or else we
are setting ourselves up for a big pie in the face. -
Clifford Stoll, 1995
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