BY NOW, WE’RE EXPERT VISIONARIES

“We had the first great wave of visionaries and boosterism, which was exciting and energizing. But now we’ve lived here for a while, and we have a lot of empirical evidence about how it works.”

Feed editor Steven Johnson, on how his skilled hand at manufacturing hype and making oracular pronouncements will come in handy for a new discussion site sponsored by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Wired News, 1 May 1998