That Silly Internet Thing

Our colleagues at Government Executive point to a blog post that highlights a 1995 Newsweek article on how the Internet will fail. A great line: " . . . no computer network will change the way government works."

And this:

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.