WorldView and VRML may well end up catalyzing the next phase of online mutation: the construction of a true, straight-out-of-“Neuromancer” cyberspace on the Internet.
Predictor: Pesce, Mark
Prediction, in context:For a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Erik Davis covers pagans and the Internet culture, interviewing Mark Pesce, the creator of VRML a technopagan from San Francisco. Davis writes: ”VRML has been endorsed by Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Digital, NEC, and other Net behemoths, and Pesce’s collaborator, Tony Parisi at Intervista Software, will soon release a 3-D graphical Web browser called WorldView, which will add a crucial spatial dimension to the Web’s tangled 2-D hyperspace of home pages, links, and endless URLs. As Pesce’s technomagical children, WorldView and VRML may well end up catalyzing the next phase of online mutation: the construction of a true, straight-out-of-‘Neuromancer’ cyberspace on the Internet.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Technopagans: May the Astral Plane be Reborn in Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/technopagans_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney