I love it when someone goes out on a limb and makes a prediction. It shows boldness. I also love it when those predictions turn out to be thoroughly, utterly, and irredeemably false. I don't like it when it happens to me, of course...but when it happens to someone else, it's pretty funny. In a February 1995 article, Newsweek writer Clifford Stoll predicted that the Internet would never really amount to anything. He scoffed at the so-called experts in the field, declaring in a fairly smug way th...
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