For good quotes don't forget to look at Ira Magaziner's speeches circa 1998. There are some doozies in there :) And the 'pro-noid' (cf paranoid) 'Long Boom' article, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.07/longboom_pr.html is another classic. Beyond collecting such predictions, I found these articles to be useful in understanding what role claims of radical novelty play in technological discourse. Quirk, J. J. (1989) ‘The history of the future’ in Carey (ed) Communication as Culture, Unwin Hyman, Boston. 1989. Thrift, N. (1996) ‘New Urban Eras and Old Technological Fears: Reconfiguring the Goodwill of Electronic Things’ in Urban Studies, Vol. 33, No. 8. pp 1463 - 1493. Mulgan, G. J. (1991) Communication and Control. Polity Press, Cambridge. (particularly the introduction, around page 14) Cheers, James On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Janna Anderson wrote:
You can look at the Predictions Database to get a wealth of such information. I suggest you first look at the categories of topics and subtopics into which the quotations have been sorted:
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/predictioncategories.aspx
Then go to the advanced search page and select the subtopic and topic areas in which you would expect to find the quotes you desire:
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/advanced.aspx
Another method would be to search the database by using the names of individuals with either the dystopian (Clifford Stoll, Sven Birkerts) or utopian (Negroponte, Gates) viewpoints.
The book I'll have coming out this summer from Rowman & Littlefield - "Imagining the Internet" - will have an entire chapter on "Knocking the 'Net" as well as many of the gushy quotes of the early '90s in its support.
Janna
On 3/10/05 12:47 PM, "Nancy Baym" <nbaym@ku.edu> wrote:
A dual question:
Has anyone got particular favorite utopain or dystopian statements/landmarks about the internet? (preferably with citation) I'm thinking of things like famous ads promising us liberation from race age etc, Negroponte's "Being Digital," as well as quotations.
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Does anyone know of any papers or lists tracing the uptopian or dystopian highlights of rhetoric about the internet?
Thanks,
Nancy
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