Category: Technology

As recently as 1999, about 80% of newspaper and magazine articles on the Internet dealt with its ability to disseminate knowledge, and nearly every news story referred to the World Wide Web as the “information superhighway.” In those not-so-long-ago days, the politicos and media mavens inferred that this technology was going to make us smarter and more knowledgeable than we’d ever before been. The entire wealth of human knowledge would be only a few keystrokes away, making this the best thing to come along since the library at Alexandria.