Archive for May 4th, 1998

BY NOW, WE’RE EXPERT VISIONARIES

May 4, 1998

“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