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00:52:20 -0800 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:52:20 -0800 en-us 60 Why the
Web Won't 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. 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. <a href="">Baloney. Do our computer pundits
lack all common sense? The truth [is] 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.</a>" A view