Epic fail

So it is still accurate then today... Its make a poignant point then... nothings moved on from 1995

Define accurate:

no online database will replace your daily newspaper

Newspaper circulation is going through the floor. News on the web is news. That in newspapers is already a day out of date.

Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

Amazon.com?

Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping--just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete.** So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month**? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet--which there isn't--the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

Name one thing about this paragraph that is correct. Including the idea that salespeople are essential.

Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another.

How did we all meet again? How are we communicating now?

And who'd prefer cybersex to the real thing?

Gary Glitter?