‘The Internet will fail’ and other erroneous tech predictions

IN 1995 American astronomer and author Clifford Stoll told the world that “The truth i[s] 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.”

“Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading,” said Stoll in the February 27, 1995 issue of Newsweek magazine in an article entitled The Internet? Bah!