The Internet? Bah!

[Dave W]

1995 Newsweek article

If the author's wikipedia entry is accurate, he was qualified to write about computers back then. Funny how wrong he was. Or as one commenter said, Legendary Failure.

[OldManC]

I LOVE that article... 

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I remember reading that when it was current. What the author failed to take into account was people's capacity to absorb lots of intellectual garbage and their willingness to abandon what traditional media regarded as "sacred" institutions. Newspapers are dead; non-infotainment news is dying, and 80% of kids aged 19 and under say that everything you read on the internet is true. He missed the point because he was imagining a brighter future.

[Pilgrim]

The author comes off as a bit of a Luddite today...and has been proven wrong in a number of issues.

One of the important differences is that many people are no longer able to, or interested in, telling fact from fiction.  Evaluating sources of online information is an increasingly important but increasingly neglected skill.

[ack1961]

He's so right.  The Internet will never catch on.

[uwe]

I could live with a little less of it. I like newspapers, weekly magazines with well-researched and -worded articles and music from a CD.

[Highlander]

Intern...? It...?