Thanks to Digg the most popular article on Newsweek.com is currently an opinion piece circa 1995 on this thing called “the internet.” See Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway:
“We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?
