We will all become mighty morphing cyborgs capable of reconfiguring ourselves by the minute … Think of yourself on some evening in the not-so-distant future, when wearable, fitted, and implanted electronic organs connected by bodynets are as commonplace as cotton; your intimate infrastructure connects you seamlessly to a planetful of bits, and you have software in your underwear.
Predictor: Mitchell, William J.
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 paper “Community Networks,” Neil Guy quotes William Mitchell. Guy writes: ”Indeed, the boundaries between fiction and thoughtful discourse on CMC [Computer-Mediated Communication] become rather blurred sometimes. William Mitchell, for example, yearns for a world in which people have become cybernetic human-machine hybrids wired into a global communications network. ‘We will all become mighty morphing cyborgs capable of reconfiguring ourselves by the minute … Think of yourself on some evening in the not-so-distant future, when wearable, fitted, and implanted electronic organs connected by bodynets are as commonplace as cotton; your intimate infrastructure connects you seamlessly to a planetful of bits, and you have software in your underwear.'”
Biography:William J. Mitchell was a professor and dean of architecture at MIT and the author of the predictive book “City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn” (1994). He also taught at Harvard, Yale, Carnegie-Mellon and Cambridge Universities. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction
Name of publication: Community Networks: Building Real Communities In Virtual Space
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter One – Introduction
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.tela.bc.ca/ma-thesis/chapter1.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Goodrich, Barbara J.