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."

Comments

Re:Wow, he really missed the opportunity

[ElectricTurtle]

You point was so insightful I sent the link to my wife. No doubt you will be moderated rightly into orbit, but due to lack of points not by me.

It's from Clifford Stoll

[Wee]

I mean, seriously: This is the guy who wrote an entire book about how e-commerce was "baloney" and who now makes a living selling things on the Net. He thought the Internet would kill libraries and make schools close. He claimed that "information, better communications, and electronic programs" could never "cure social problems" (tell Obama that).

What else would you expect from him?

-B