Kevin Kelly was one of the founders of Wired magazine way back in the early 1990′s, and he is always reliably thought-provoking. He found this list from 1997, of quotes from the first five years of the magazine, and there’s poetry and prophecy. Worth checking out. Here are just a few:
We as a culture are deeply, hopelessly, insanely in love with gadgetry. And you can’t fight love and win.
Jaron Lanier, Wired 1.02, May/June 1993, p. 80
It’s hard to predict this stuff. Say you’d been around in 1980, trying to predict the PC revolution. You never would’ve come and seen me.
Bill Gates, Wired 2.12, Dec 1994, p. 166
The future won’t be 500 channels — it will be one channel, your channel.
Scott Sassa, Wired 3.03, Mar 1995, p. 113
