The more widespread and grassroots the Internet, the more difficult it will be to dominate and control it. You can contribute directly to the humanizing of the wires by telling your story, adding your persona to the unaffiliated.
Predictor: Hall, Justin Allyn
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 online essay “Why the Web?” Justin Hall makes the following statement: ”The more widespread and grassroots the Internet, the more difficult it will be to dominate and control it. You can contribute directly to the humanizing of the wires by telling your story, adding your persona to the unaffiliated.”
Biography:Justin Hall worked briefly at Wired in 1994, during a sabbatical from his college days at Swarthmore. He started his own irreverent e-zine, covering diverse topics and providing links all over the Web. He later worked for ZDTV and Games.com and as a freelance journalist. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Links.net
Title, headline, chapter name: Why the Web?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.links.net/dox/tech/whyweb.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Goodrich, Barbara J.