This Newsweek article, written by Silicon Snake Oil author Clifford Stoll, is wonderfully inaccurate. He also didn't predict we'd be using the phrase 'EPIC FAIL'.
(Thanks to @geekygreen for the link.)
Monday, March 08, 2010
Unbelievably awesome 1995 Newsweek article about the internet
"Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure."
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3 comments:
Good find Jon.
Actually, I think that's one of the better parts of his predictions. It is true that we still mostly don't like the idea of reading books on screens. That's only just now being put to the serious test with Kindle et al - and in the interim there have been plenty of people predicting the demise of paper who have been more wrong than Clifford Stoll.
Sure, he did get a lot else wrong, partly because he underestimated our ability to come up with ways of filtering large masses of data (something I've expanded on at http://www.markpack.org.uk/why-was-clifford-stoll-so-wrong/ )
Superb!
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