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I read Silicon Snakeoil when I was much younger in the internet's infancy and though it was completely out of touch. I think even he has admitted it didn't pan
by drpossum 3y ago
I read Silicon Snakeoil when I was much younger in the internet's infancy and though it was completely out of touch. I think even he has admitted it didn't pan out has he predicted.
Now that the internet is reaching its final form I'm not so sure anymore
- jhbadger 3y agoAnd even back then he wasn't completely wrong. Yes, people laugh at his assertion that "nobody would want to shop online rather than go to a mall" but the dot-com crash of 2000-2001 did kill off most online shopping venues. Of course Amazon survived, but it was the rare exception, like the ancestors of modern birds surviving the asteroid.
- HarryHirsch 3y agonobody would want to shop online rather than go to a mall But we do have Best Buy, where you can inspect the product before you buy it. And the wife complains about Walmart grocery shopping, where the Walmart employee picked bad vegetables or made really silly substitutions.