A virtual hoard of the shiny things I find on the internet.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail.
What’s astonishing to me about this article isn’t that Stoll identifies problems like the mish-mash of data with no way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff, or the challenges of reading news online, because he was correct about all those.
What surprises me is that it didn’t seem to occur to him that people would invent ways of solving those problems.
But read through to the end, because it’s clear that he at least has the good humor to admit how radically wrong he was, and use it as a lesson in humility. Good on you, sir.
