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* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including: | * '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including: | ||
** "The truth | ** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works." | ||
** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, | ** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure." | ||
** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.) | ** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.) | ||