An article in Newsweek written in 1995 about how the internet will fail and not change the way things are done. Make sure to read the red text at
least since that is the funniest stuff.BDx13 - 9-8-2010 at 03:25 PM
"Baloney."
That was awesome.
Interesting that he responded, too. XnMeX - 9-8-2010 at 08:55 PM
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Originally posted by BD
"Baloney."
That was awesome.
Interesting that he responded, too.
Yup! His hindsight is deffinetly 20/20 now!Six66Mike - 9-8-2010 at 10:18 PM
"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."
Wow whoever wrote that is an idiot. What medium haven't salespeople taken advantage of? TV, Radio, roadside billboards, buses, telemarketing... of
course sales people will flock to the internet. People were buying shit online back in '95 too. PayPal started only 3 years after this article to
cash in on a growing market and they nailed it.
Good grief. I'm more afraid with what these sales people and government bitches are doing to the Internet today than what someone thought about in
the 90's though. Someone writing an article today for 2015 will probably be a longshot off the truth as well, they are going to fuck this thing up so
bad.
