Hilarious article in Newsweek from 1995 about how the internet is going to fail.

spytap:

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tanya77:

theoriginaljoefisher:

There’s literally nothing the article gets right.  Money quote:

Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Don’t let Newsweek see this.

We already did! And responded, here, and here.

Enh, the thing about putting your opinion out there is that even if you’re incredibly smart, you’re still going to be wrong a lot. The more open you are to being opinionated, and the better the medium at retaining that information, the more opportunities you’ll have for others to recall just how wrong you were.

We better get used to it, we’re all pretty opinionated around these parts. Just wait for 15 years from now when people are trolling through Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr archives wondering “what the fuck were these people thinking?”

The only way to stay safe from ever being called out on being wrong about something is to either be psychic or keep your opinions to yourself. I’m finding that I’m more and more willing to be opinionated as time goes on.

Source: theoriginaljoefisher

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    Ah, this article - seriously, how horrendous. The fact that it’s posted online doesn’t help its premise out a lot...
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    Another fantastic quote: “Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and...
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    The only way to stay safe from ever being called out on being wrong about something is to either be psychic or keep your...
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    Oh, I love it. I love it hard.
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    Enh, the thing about putting your opinion out there is that even if you’re incredibly smart, you’re still going to be...
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    In Norway we had a guy predicting the Internets demise from 1996 to 1999.
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