We may have slipped into work spaces that leave us nowhere to hide, that over-illuminate our thought refuges with the blaze of activity.
Predictor: Acker, Stephen R.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Stephen R. Acker of the Communication Department/Center for the Advanced Study of Telecommunications at The Ohio State University discusses collaboration in a virtual world. He writes: ÒMost of us lack the experience to coordinate activity in physical and electronic environments and are in the main unconscious of the effects of the physical space and activity patterns we select in which to do our work. Can the collaborative process conducted in distributed locations save us time for reflection, or will these space-merging technologies only increase the frenzy of activity? Higher education must consider this issue, especially if its practices serve to habituate and direct activities in other social arenas by those who, at least for a time, are charges of academic institutions. Without paying enough attention, we may have slipped into work spaces that leave us nowhere to hide, that over-illuminate our thought refuges with the blaze of activity.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/acker/ACKTEXT.HTM
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne