From Slate magazine comes a story that begins:
"In 1995, Clifford Stoll, an astronomer, author, and mad-scientist type, published a column in Newsweek with a doozy of a headline: 'The Internet? Bah!' The piece was based on Stoll's book, Silicon Snake Oil, in which he argued that we were all being taken for a ride by tech pundits who offered dreamy visions of a coming 'information superhighway.' 'Baloney,' Stoll wrote. '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.'
Hmmmm. How'd that work out?
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