Like the printing press, the new computer media will bring forth its own very special ways to think about complexities we have not been able to deal with up to now … 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.
Predictor: Kay, Alan
Prediction, in context:A 1994 article in Wired magazine carried an excerpt of a speech delivered by Alan Kay, a computing pioneer and a fellow at Apple Computer, at the University of California at Los Angeles in the first quarter of 1994. Kay says: ”Like the printing press, the new computer media will bring forth its own very special ways to think about complexities we have not been able to deal with up to now – especially for complex chaotic systems such as the AIDS epidemic and the ecological balance of our planet. But 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.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Infobahn is Not the Answer
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/infobahn.not_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney