Interesting. I wanna try a 2017 scorecard: 1. Usenet is garbage: CORRECT although it was better in the early days. This seems to be a general trend with all co

Interesting. I wanna try a 2017 scorecard: 1. Usenet is garbage: CORRECT although it was better in the early days. This seems to be a general trend with all comment/message board systems, they rapidly lose value when they breach a certain size, although some including our dear HN have survived for quite some time. 2. Downloading books won't happen: WRONG. Paper isn't going anywhere but ebooks are an unqualified success at this point, largely because (unlike at the time) we can carry our computers anywhere now. 3. The Internet is a wasteland of unfiltered data: CORRECT for now. Interestingly, there was a golden age of Google and Wikipedia that would have made this statement look false but now we've regressed back to fake news, social feeds, and personalized search results. 4. The internet will not be useful for governing: CORRECT for the most part. 5. Computers won't help schools: CORRECT for the most part. 6. "Cyberbusiness" will fail because the world needs salespeople: LOLZ. I'm not going to try to break down the final paragraph. I think some of these will still improve in the longer run but 22 years later, I'm still giving him 4 out of 6 here.