As they say, predicting is hard, especially about the future. Here are some predictions from the early 90s, from William Gibson, novelist, essayist and the person who coined the term cyberspace.
From 1993:
The values are the only things that last, the only things that *can* last. Hack the hardware, not the Constitution. Hold on tight to what matters, and just hack the rest. I used to think that cyberspace was 50 years away. What I thought was 50 years away, was only 10 years away. And what I thought was 10 years away - it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
From 1995:
We're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's something that profound and with that sort of infinite possibilities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization.
And again, from 1995:
We are being shoved up against futurity with such violence that science fiction may become a historical term ... The Internet may be important because we are seeing something akin to what we did when we invented cities.
What do you think?
