It’s so easy to imagine a scenario in which technology is used to get instant judgments from people. If it is used that way, we haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to high-tech lynchings.
Predictor: Blau, Andrew
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Governing, Christopher Conte quotes Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation. Conte writes: ”The ease and sheer speed of new communications technologies give the information superhighway its appeal. But those same qualities provoke fears among people who see it as a threat to representative democracy. ‘Real democracy is slow and deliberative,’ notes Andrew Blau, director of the communications policy project for the Benton Foundation, a Washington, D.C., group that promotes the use of the information superhighway. ‘It’s so easy to imagine a scenario in which technology is used to get instant judgments from people. If it is used that way, we haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to high-tech lynchings.'”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Democracy
Name of publication: Governing
Title, headline, chapter name: Teledemocracy: For Better or Worse
Quote Type: Paraphrase
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