He might have been saying it basically was at the time, like the analogy to television. I don't see how he could endorse the idea that it was a fundamental time

He might have been saying it basically was at the time, like the analogy to television. I don't see how he could endorse the idea that it was a fundamental time-sink though. He expresses his inability to predict it, and prior to its widespread popularity he wrote of a cyberspace that was as woven into the fabric of daily machinations as ours is today, and not in the sense television is. But he was right about it not feeling like a conversation. It still doesn't. We are still connected mostly to the things other people have done in the past. Even this particular mode of conversation, comment threads, is guilty of that.