So I hadn't seen Krugman's 98 quote before, but it reminds me of Cliff Stohl who wrote a whole book skeptical of the internet in 1995. The thing is that looking

So I hadn't seen Krugman's 98 quote before, but it reminds me of Cliff Stohl who wrote a whole book skeptical of the internet in 1995. The thing is that looking back a couple decades on, their criticisms land for me - they made good points but the Internet was so rapidly adopted that they looked like fools at the time, but I think that as things have worn on and I've gotten older, they look more prescient in retrospect.