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Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will fail?

Great find. A blog discovered an infamous Newsweek article [dating back to 1995] about the Internet "isn't, and will never be, nirvana".

Author Clifford Stoll wrote:

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.
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Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

[via Three Word Chant!]

 

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• 27 February 2010
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