Reading Log

"The Internet? Bah!" by: Clifford Stoll
February 27, 1995

Summary: In this article, Stoll discredits the internet and makes claims that it will never become what other internet enthusiasts have claimed.

Response: Reading an article written 12 years ago is quite humorous. Stoll makes claims saying the internet will never be a part of a classroom, and online shopping is just blasphemy and will never work. Apparently he hadn't seen Ebay at that time. Not to mention you can earn entire college degrees without stepping into a classroom because of the advances in the internet. Stoll says, "Computers and networks isolate us from one another." On the contrary, people from all over the world now have means to communicate with one another. There are chat rooms and other posting sites where people can talk to one another and even form relationships. A friend of mine met a girl over the internet from Argentina, and ended up marrying her. Not to say that all internet relationships end up this way and that there is not risk involved, but so many doors have been opened by the internet. While reading this it seems that everything he was saying would not happen, in fact did. I makes you think twice about what the internet is predicted to do in the future. What is impossible now, may be reality in 10 years.