Left In Lowell

I found this blog post which dredged up a 1995 article, complaining how the internet was really overpromised, that is very amusing. It’s chock-full of yummy goodies to laugh at, but its opening alone is precious! Bold mine, to highlight stuff that yes, really did come true, you internet Scrooge!

But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? 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.

Too funny. The only one that, I think, you can hand to this 15-year-old rant, is that we haven’t replaced teachers, though classrooms are a very different place technologically than they were, in most schools.

Anyway, go read it, it’s very funny. Talk about having no vision!

Coming at you live, via the internets, a series of toobs where you can have a virtual discussion…I’m going back to my facebook feed (which was where I found this link).