Re: Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Wendy M. Grossman" <wendyg () pelicancrossing net>
> Date: July 25, 2018 at 18:03:08 GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana
>
> For IP, if you wish:
>
> > On 07/25/2018 08:15 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
> > Bob Metcalfe also is famous for predicting the same year, 1995, the
> > complete collapse of the Internet two years later. People are still
> > saying that the "Internet is Broken" (even technical people, who don't
> > really know how it works, but think they do). He ate his hat shortly
> > after his prediction failed.
>
> To be strictly factual, Metcalfe had said in the column he wrote at the
> time that the internet would begin experiencing brownouts before the end
> of the year, and if it didn't he would *eat his column*. Which, when he
> turned out to be wrong, he did in a public setting. (IIRC he added salt
> and pepper to make it more palatable.)
>
> I'd point out that recently we're seeing a new wave of Internet backlash
> that, much like Stoll's, is coming from insiders: tech titans who don't
> let their kids use screens, pundits who boast about giving up their
> phones...it's an inversion of the early days. In 1995 London mobile
> phones were often called "poser phones" because the people who had them
> tended to such self-importance; today, only the very few (rich,
> staffed-up, who don't need to apply for jobs or anything else) can
> afford *not* to have a phone.
>
> wg
> -- 
> www.pelicancrossing.net <- all about me
> Twitter: @wendyg



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