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Yeah, every time someone trots out that article, I think that he was wrong about a lot of details and right about a lot of the broad implications.
by PhasmaFelis 10y ago
Yeah, every time someone trots out that article, I think that he was wrong about a lot of details and right about a lot of the broad implications.
- davidiach 10y agoWasn't his broad implication that the internet was massively overrated and not really that big of a deal?
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoHe was wrong about a lot of the specific business applications, mainly because the problems he cited were all things that could be (and were) engineered around once there was enough profit to be made. He was right about most of the social/utopian applications; educational software, government websites, and social networks are all useful tools and have been more financially successful than he predicted, but they have never revolutionized education or government, nor given us something better than face-to-face contact, as we were promised.