On: 1995: The Internet? Bah

[DanielBMarkham]

I assume this was posted for folks to read and say "Look at the fool! Look how wrong he was!"

I find it much more interesting to find the parts in his essay that were true both then and now, for those are the parts where he stands the greatest chance of making a useful observation.

Reading it in this fashion, it looks as though we continue to confuse data for knowledge, images for experiences, and typing for human interaction. Not a lot of news there, but interesting nonetheless.

[joezydeco → DanielBMarkham]

There's an old book from 1980 called "The Book of Predictions" that I used to keep around for the same reasons.

The book is pretty much whack now, but it looks like others are in a similar boat:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/06/the-book-of-p...

[smallblacksun → DanielBMarkham]

Also, some of his criticisms were very real issues that lead (in part) to the dot com bust.

[tedunangst]

Since he's not a tenured university professor, I'm not sure how I should interpret the rest of your comment.

[Metternic → tedunangst]

My mistake.