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re: Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoincs
Posted on 11/22/13 at 11:27 am to Broke
Posted on 11/22/13 at 11:27 am to Broke
quote:
Excerpted from Newsweek: The Internet? Bah!, Feb 26, 1995
Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two.
But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community – the internet.
Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities.
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?
The truth in 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.
How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on a computer. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach.
Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet.
Uh, sure.
The Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness.
Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data.
Then there are those pushing computers into schools.
We’re told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software. Who needs teachers when you’ve got computer-aided education?
Bah.
Can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past? I’ll bet you remember the two or three great teachers who made a difference in your life.
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.
What’s missing from this electronic wonderland?
Human contact.
Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities.
Computers and networks isolate us from one another.
A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee.
A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where — in the holy names of Education and Progress — important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.
Posted on 11/22/13 at 11:36 am to WikiTiger
So you have no intelligent rebuttal to the points I made? All you can do is copy and paste an article that was incorrect about SOME things?
Why didn't you copy and paste this about a futuristic prediction that didn't quite live up to the prediction?:
"In 1985 Steven Spielberg predicted 30 years into the future cars would fly, fueled by mini nuclear reactors which gained their power from splitting atoms off banana peels and beer cans.
Where are the flying cars? Where are the mini nuclear reactors and cold fusion generators? Where are the teleporters? They are in the minds of children yet to be born." LINK
Why didn't you copy and paste this about a futuristic prediction that didn't quite live up to the prediction?:
"In 1985 Steven Spielberg predicted 30 years into the future cars would fly, fueled by mini nuclear reactors which gained their power from splitting atoms off banana peels and beer cans.
Where are the flying cars? Where are the mini nuclear reactors and cold fusion generators? Where are the teleporters? They are in the minds of children yet to be born." LINK
Posted on 11/22/13 at 11:43 am to WikiTiger
And here we are again skewing the facts. We said Bitcoin will fail very specifically. Bitcoin.
And I'll admit I'm skeptical of all virtual currency but who knows what will happen in 100 years
And I'll admit I'm skeptical of all virtual currency but who knows what will happen in 100 years
This post was edited on 11/22/13 at 11:44 am
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