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Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (From 1995)
Newsweek ^
| 02/26/1995
| By Clifford Stoll
Posted on 12/19/2013 2:07:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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From 1995.
Wrong, wrong and more wrong.
To: Responsibility2nd
Newsweek wrong? Again? Say it isn’t so!!
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:11:39 PM PST
by
MeganC
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To: Responsibility2nd
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. Seventy four years later we were on the moon.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:11:50 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Responsibility2nd
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
I'm very careful about technology predictions. Really smart people have been getting it really wrong for a long time.
/johnny
To: SkyDancer
Beat me by mere seconds.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:13:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I have what would be multiple bookcases of books in my Kindle. It is great. People can now self-publish in e-book format with Amazon.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:13:37 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: JRandomFreeper
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” — H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:14:40 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I’m guessing he got to the 8th grade, looked back on what he wrote in the 3rd grade and feels pretty silly now.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:15:01 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: EEGator
Amazon distributes e-books.
There are many publishing programs out there to take text and create e-books. I did it with some technical manuals for a small company.
/johnny
To: Responsibility2nd
The world is stupid and contagious.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:17:06 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: JRandomFreeper
Do you have any recommendations on those programs?
I’ve been toying with writing a novel.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:18:18 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: Vendome
You still see poo-pahing of technology today, even here on FR, you can regularly find freepers making absolute statements about future technology.
/johnny
To: SkyDancer
“Guitar bands have no future.” - Decca executive explaining why he turned down the Beatles.
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12/19/2013 2:19:24 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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12/19/2013 2:20:26 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
Given most of what is produced now, I’d be one of those that rather actors be silent.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:20:27 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I Love Sprint's Homage to all the important things on the internet!
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:20:28 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I remember that, people including myself thinking it was going to be like CB radio. Oh my oh my if one could only travel back in time. “Yes, I would like to invest all my money in Yahoo and I have this idea for a website called Facebook and Youtube...”
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:21:09 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
To: wally_bert
It’s all graphic’s. Actors just do one-liners.
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posted on
12/19/2013 2:21:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
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12/19/2013 2:21:54 PM PST
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dfwgator
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