Comments on: Newsweek on Why the Internet Will Fail (1995) http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/02/26/newsweek-on-why-the-internet-will-fail-1995/ A blog with delusions of grandeur Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/02/26/newsweek-on-why-the-internet-will-fail-1995/comment-page-1/#comment-122456 aaron cohen Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:48:04 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=6443#comment-122456 Not sure I agree completely. I think the internet might lure us to surrender our time outside, but not necessarily on earth. And even that... I can now lay in a meadow internetting if I want to. Not sure I agree completely. I think the internet might lure us to surrender our time outside, but not necessarily on earth. And even that… I can now lay in a meadow internetting if I want to.

]]> By: Aaron Pik http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/02/26/newsweek-on-why-the-internet-will-fail-1995/comment-page-1/#comment-122421 Aaron Pik Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:41:53 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=6443#comment-122421 There is one sentence in that long pile of crazy-wrong that I think rings true: "While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth." In my opinion this is 100% correct. The rest of the article was 100% incorrect. There is one sentence in that long pile of crazy-wrong that I think rings true:

“While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth.”

In my opinion this is 100% correct. The rest of the article was 100% incorrect.

]]> By: That whole Internet thing is NEVER going to take off « John W. http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/02/26/newsweek-on-why-the-internet-will-fail-1995/comment-page-1/#comment-122419 That whole Internet thing is NEVER going to take off « John W. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:50:18 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=6443#comment-122419 [...] thing is NEVER going to take off I was reading Clifford Stoll’s 1995 Newsweek article (via Unlikely Words) in which he calls the Internet “trendy and oversold,” and I was [...] [...] thing is NEVER going to take off I was reading Clifford Stoll’s 1995 Newsweek article (via Unlikely Words) in which he calls the Internet “trendy and oversold,” and I was [...]

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