How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted

Lord Byron Eee PC writes "Newsweek is carrying a navel-gazing piece on how wrong they were when in 1995 they published a story about how the Internet would fail. The original article states, 'Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.' The article continues to say that online shopping will never happen, that airline tickets won't be purchased over the web, and that newspapers have nothing to fear. It's an interesting look back at a time when the Internet was still a novelty and not yet a necessity."

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Newsweek is trash.

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Had a subscription for a year. I quit reading after just a few issues. The news is stale, which is fine for a weekly periodical. But the analysis was terrible. Shallow, biased, often misinformed. Not surprised they missed this. Just one among a titanic pile of crap.