The Internet? Bah!

I just Googled "battle of trafalgar" and followed the very first link, to the Wikipedia entry. It contained the date of the battle. I'm not sure about the other results you encountered but I assure you, the Internet is an immensely helpful research tool. While it will never replace human interaction, it can certainly facilitate ever-greater knowledge-sharing and new possibilities for learning.

Written almost 13 years ago by a non-visionist.

http://popurls.com might be a solution

A google search of "battle trafalgar"(no quotes) gives me the date without even clicking on a link. Clearly, Mr. Stoll has an axe to grind, and is willing to bend the truth to "prove" his point.

In less genteel circles, this is referred to as "lying".

If this is the best example of how "useless" the Internet is, then I think he can be safely dismissed as a curmudgeon and a crank.

Until I saw the dateline, I was in shock ... the contradiction overload was just too high. Followed by the second thought, almost as powerful: how must the author feel about this now, 13 years later? Fast-forward 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar ... copy, paste click! Although, I 'm sure this article will still resonate with many a Luddite today.

Until I saw the dateline, I was in shock ... the contradiction overload was just too high. Followed by the second thought, almost as powerful: how must the author feel about this now, 13 years later? Fast-forward 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar ... copy, paste click! Although, I 'm sure this will resonate with many a Luddite today.

misleading all the way ... The entire article. I hope I could publish an article in response to yours on the Sne website. But you talk about things that you dont like rather than things that are hit possible.

Goodluck with what you think but Internet is having lives everyday and every second. Just dig into ebay and google to just give you a few examples. (they boy do more online business on an hour to what your local mall dies on a day)

Dig into what cdrom education is doing to various parts of Africa where its almost impossible to get good teachers.

Dig why Swizerland has an online embasy in second life.

Dig why we are reading your article online instead of on a newspaper.

Internet is not changing the entire world but its sure is changing things.

Monish Khosla
monish21@gmail.com

Actually ... I was just being a smart-aleck, but it looks like the article actually *is* from the mid-90s.
Whoops!

You have nothing to say what the internet user already does not know. But you had to write something, so you ramble on. There are many reliable edited sources of info on the net. What the net does is make it available readily to a lot of people, just like your ramble.

You have nothing to say what the internet user already does not know. But you had to write something, so you ramble on. There are many reliable edited sources of info on the net. What the net does is make it available readily to a lot of people, just like your ramble.

Thank you Newsweek, for this great flashback article from the mid-90s.

Its always great to think back to how skeptical we all were 10 years ago, before banking, investments, dating, job hunting, socializing, reading the news, and even book shopping were all done primarily online. It makes for a great reminder of how easy it is to be wrapped up in our own ideas of how things are 'supposed' to be done, to the extent that it blinds us to newer and better ways.

However, I would recommend that you prominently mention the date this article was published. Without clearly marking it as an archived article, it looks suspiciously like some retrograde curmudgeon is trying to deny that the past decade ever occurred. How embarrassing would that be?

Thank you Newsweek, for this great flashback article from the mid-90s.

Its always great to think back to how skeptical we all were 10 years ago, before banking, investments, dating, job hunting, socializing, reading the news, and even book shopping were all done primarily online. It makes for a great reminder of how easy it is to be wrapped up in our own ideas of how things are 'supposed' to be done, to the extent that it blinds us to newer and better ways.

However, I would recommend that you prominently mention the date this article was published. Without clearly marking it as an archived article, it looks suspiciously like some retrograde curmudgeon is trying to deny that the past decade ever occurred. How embarrassing would that be?

One thing I, as a 47-year-old man, have begun to understand is the ability (or susceptibility) that younger people have to adapt to new technology and integrate it into their lives, simply because it is all they have ever known. Your comments may all be true for "our" generation, but what then? (And by the way, I turned up reliable info on the Battle of Trafalgar in 15 seconds. You must not know where to look. ;)

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval battle west of Cape Trafalgar in the province of Cádiz in south-west Spain. A British fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships of the line on 21 October 1805 in the most decisive naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars.
I agree with you... but wouldn't trans-humanism allow for integration of community and regulation of "the net"

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval battle west of Cape Trafalgar in the province of Cádiz in south-west Spain. A British fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships of the line on 21 October 1805 in the most decisive naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars.
btw, i agree with you... but wouldn't trans-humanism allow for humanity to integrate and regulate the "net"?
btw, i

> One or two things may have changed since the.
e.g. the ugly (but working) Kindle by amazon.

Um... the article was copyright 1995. One or two things may have changed since the.

What are these newspapers that you speak of?