In every age there are millions of people like me – who are vying to be last to have whatever is new and allegedly better. Who has time for all the multimedia, interactive mumbo-jumbo? We will join the wave of the future only after it laps gently onto shore. Let others enjoy the pleasures of digging their Model T out of the mud.
Predictor: Samuelson, Robert
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 essay for Newsweek magazine, columnist Robert Samuelson writes: ”One market test of video on demand in Cerritos, Calif., found that hardly anyone used it, reports the Los Angeles Times. In every age there are millions of people like me – who are vying to be last to have whatever is new and allegedly better. Who has time for all the multimedia, interactive mumbo-jumbo? We will join the wave of the future only after it laps gently onto shore. Let others enjoy the pleasures of digging their Model T out of the mud.”
Biography:Robert Samuelson , a regular columnist for Newsweek, also wrote for the Washington Post in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: Lost On The Information Superhighway: It’s a Lot of Hoopla. No One Yet Knows Where It’s Going
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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