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This internet lark will never take off

  • 21-02-2010 1:48pm
    #1
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭


    Clifford Stoll writing for Newsweek in 1995:
    After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

    Baloney.

    Well worth a read.


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  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    I enjoyed that, he was right about some things
    the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading.


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Came across that report before, though it was funny.
    He obviouly didn't talk to the boys at Darpa before he put his foot in it! LOL


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I actually enjoyed that. What a difference a decade and a half makes.

    Imagine what we will be like in 2025.


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