This article was written by Clifford Stoll for NEWSWEEK Magazine in 1995, back at the genesis of the Internet. A friend of mine sent it to me and we both got a kick out of it. But I could do one better, I said! I could turn the article into more self parody using the power of Hyperlinks and 20/20 vision 15 years in the future! (With apologies to Maddox.)
Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from [...] Continue Reading…









































