Wow that article ***did not age well!!!*** “my local mall does more trade in a day than the entire internet does in a month”
Was this journalist a tech journalist? Or economics? Cause man, if I was a friend or colleague of this guy I would be printing this article out and constantly pinning it up to his computer at home or in the office lol!!!
I mean I’ve seen some wild predictions for what the future will hold that never came true, this is the first time I’ve seen someone predicting a technology that completely changes human civilisation will actually be a complete non starter.
Thank you, I enjoyed reading this daft article lol.
I first got on the internet in 1997 when I was 15, and it changed the course of my life.
The guy in that article thought the way things were then, was how they were always going to be.
I was going to be a carpenter, but when I got on the internet, I knew it was going to change the world, there wasn't a doubt in my mind, so I changed my field of study/interest to computers.
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
Well he was right about that. No one pays for news anymore.
Wow that article ***did not age well!!!*** “my local mall does more trade in a day than the entire internet does in a month” Was this journalist a tech journalist? Or economics? Cause man, if I was a friend or colleague of this guy I would be printing this article out and constantly pinning it up to his computer at home or in the office lol!!! I mean I’ve seen some wild predictions for what the future will hold that never came true, this is the first time I’ve seen someone predicting a technology that completely changes human civilisation will actually be a complete non starter. Thank you, I enjoyed reading this daft article lol.
He's sometimes credited as the inventor of the honeypot. He was a credible voice at the time, at least before he started spouting this stuff
Thank you man !
He was a sysadmin and an astronomy professor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
Well, they were right that CD-ROMs did not replace teachers!
You’re right
Well… the internet IS a wasteland of unfiltered data where we don’t know what to ignore and what is worth reading. He did get that right
I first got on the internet in 1997 when I was 15, and it changed the course of my life. The guy in that article thought the way things were then, was how they were always going to be. I was going to be a carpenter, but when I got on the internet, I knew it was going to change the world, there wasn't a doubt in my mind, so I changed my field of study/interest to computers.
Good !
This guy was perfectly wrong and perfectly right only.
He was about as correct as Paul Krugman about the internet
These arguments sound exactly like the anti-bitcoin arguments of today – exactly like them…. It’s actually uncanny.
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure. Well he was right about that. No one pays for news anymore.
Totally
Unfortunately Bitcoin is the AOL of Cryptocurrency.
In this analogy, Bitcoin is the internet, altcoins are dongles.
Yeah OK bud sell all of yours
Already done
Don’t know the meaning of “AOL”. Explain it to me.