Circa 1995: HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN’T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA
March 27th, 2008 | by Brad King |This from my friend Chris, a link to Newsweek’s article about the Internet, circa 1995. Disregard all the spelling errors from the fact-checked and copy-edited non-blog. I’m sure this was just an oversight by the traditional media.
Notable Quotables:
On MediaÂ
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.
On Filters
Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading.
On Business
We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?
1 Trackback(s)