5 min read · Oct 11, 2022
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You don’t want to get left behind.
Before the mass adoption of the internet, people said some incredibly short-sighted things.
Similar to current views on Bitcoin.
Clifford Stoll, a journalist for Newsweek, wrote one of the most narrow-minded articles about the Internet in 1995, and to this day, he utterly regrets writing it.
Who could blame him?
People had no idea what the Internet was or how we’d even use it.
We knew how the Internet would impact the world, but the cat wasn’t strictly out of the bag, and many people leaned into what they knew, denying the Internet would ever impact our lives.
Stoll’s article dismisses every use case of the Internet — things we accept as a norm today were almost seen as a fantasy not worth believing.
This all sounds eerily similar to the rhetoric from Bitcoin naysayers.
Here’s a snippet from his article
“They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and…