"Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana"

[CptStern]

This guy is spectacularily wrong, so wrong that he's Mr Wrong ..that's mr Wrong ..R-O-N-G

note the date:

The Internet? Bah!

Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana

Feb 27, 1995 Issue , Newsweek


After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? 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.

I bet this was what it was like during the industrial revolution, old people preach the evils of metal machines only to be proven wrong at a later date ..like the guy above they're WRONG!!!


everything he says is wrong ..man he must get tired of being wrong all the time ..you suck wrong guy

http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554

 

[Acepilotf14]

Crazy bitch.
He's a witch! He turned me into a newt!

 

[MJ12]

He was right, I've never used the internet, and I don't know anyone who does.

 

[Slug Advisor]

Kill it with fire!

 

[Saturos]

Good article Stern! However, even though the internet(s) is capable of online shopping, classes, social networks, VoIP, teleconferencing etc., it still hasn't reached the point to where it's been integrated thoroughly into everyones lives. It has not yet become a necessity for most.

Simply because the technology hasen't reached a point where it can make the internet(s) cheap and convenient for everyone. (i.e. broadband not being available everywhere for starters, including rural areas). This among other online issues, such as the refurbishing of the entire online security network for the never ending battle against hackers. Our internet(s) current security infrastructure just won't cut it for future applications, and that's a fact jack.

Until then, we'll still see the old and boring ways of living real life for quite a while. Also, It's just not lucrative enough for every single big business in the world to convert to a wholly online service yet. At least not until broadband is available globally and online security is nothing short of bulletproof.

 

[Jintor]

Good article Stern! However, even though the internet(s) is capable of online shopping, classes, social networks, VoIP, teleconferencing etc., it still hasn't reached the point to where it's been integrated thoroughly into everyones lives. It has not yet become a necessity for most.

Simply because the technology hasen't reached a point where it can make the internet(s) cheap and convenient for everyone. (i.e. broadband not being available everywhere for starters, including rural areas). This among other online issues, such as the refurbishing of the entire online security network for the never ending battle against hackers. Our internet(s) current security infrastructure just won't cut it for future applications, and that's a fact jack.

Until then, we'll still see the old and boring ways of living real life for quite a while. Also, It's just not lucrative enough for every single big business in the world to convert to a wholly online service yet. At least not until broadband is available globally and online security is nothing short of bulletproof.

I for one would probably shrivel up and die without communications access to people all around the world.