The Top 25 Brief But Biting
Internet Quotes of 1990-1995
These brief quotes offer a small and simple selection of just a few of the big ideas found among the 4,200 statements included in the Early 1990s Internet Predictions Database. If you want to read these quotes in full context and get more details about each, simply click on the predictor’s name at the end of each predictive sentence on this page. We suggest that you access all of the details about this project and check into the thousands of more extremely compelling quotes in the database by going to the 1990s Internet Predictions Database homepage:听/u/imagining/time-capsule/early-90s/.
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In the world of the future, people will use low-cost Radio Shack equipment to spy on themselves to find out who they are. –听
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颁测产别谤蝉辫补肠别听飞颈迟丑辞耻迟听carefully laid channels of choice may become a waste of space. –听Michael Heim, 1992
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Computers will no longer听be a place to hide from girls or zits or lack of social skills, as it was for many of us. –听David Liddle, 1993
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The role of capital听as an editor is being removed. –听R.U. Sirius (real name, Ken Goffman), 1993
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We should have听learning centers, neighborhood electronic cottages … [but] it would be easier to get the Pope to become a Buddhist than to get the schools to change. –听Ed Lyell, 1993
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Video conferencing bears听a terrifying promise: Distance will no longer be an excuse for not attending meetings. –听Steve Steinberg, 1994
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The Internet will be to women听in the ’90s what the vibrator was to women in the ’70s. It’s going to have that power. –听Lisa Palac, 1994
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The value of information听about information can be greater than the value of the information itself. –听Nicholas Negroponte, 1994
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Faith in law will not听be an effective strategy for high-tech companies. –听John Perry Barlow, 1994
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There’s a big cinder block听stuck on the technology accelerator pedal, and we’re only gonna go faster and faster, never stopping. –听Douglas Coupland, 1994
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Telemolesters will听lurk. Telethugs will reach out and punch someone. –听William Mitchell, 1994
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From now on, the struggle听will not be over mechanical control of the means of information, but over spin-control of the zeitgeist. –听Bruce Sterling, 1994
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Much care has to be taken听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. –听Alan Kay, 1994
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The computer will听increasingly replace the commuter. –听Gerald Celente, 1994
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I’m looking forward to the day听when my daughter finds a rolled-up 1,000-pixel-by-1,000-pixel color screen in her cereal packet, with a magnetic back so it sticks to the fridge. –听Tim Berners-Lee, 1995
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The Internet, with its open,听distributed structure, was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. If it can do that, it can withstand corporate America. –听Barry Shell, 1995
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Most things that succeed don’t听require retraining 250 million people. –听Waring Partridge, 1995
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We have to resist听media imperialism – the tendency to colonize, to define new technologies in terms of the old … Redefine, don’t repackage. –听Barry Diller, 1995
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Hackers are going to听help us find ways to have a more humanized system of commerce. –听Steven Levy, 1995
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We never will get听100 percent accuracy – [intelligent] agents will always make mistakes. –听Pattie Maes, 1995
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There is nothing to be afraid of.听It’s not going to be HAL, but “Remains of the Day.” –听An Internet enthusiast (quoted by researcher Sherry Turkle) using fictional servants from popular films to explain the ideal intelligent agents, 1995
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The Internet is more like听a social space than a thing so that its effects are more like those of Germany than those of hammers. –听Mark Poster, 1995
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Tim Berners-Lee forgot听to make an expiry date compulsory … any information can just be left and forgotten. It could stay on the network until it is five years out of date. –听Brian Carpenter, 1995
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[Encryption] just has to cost听more to break than it would cost the bad guys to bribe your cleaning lady. –听Stewart Baker, 1995
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We techies should be听more honest about what computers can do and what they cannot do, or else we are setting ourselves up for a big pie in the face. –听Clifford Stoll, 1995
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