Examining Stoll

Examining Stoll
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Introduction
In this current dispensation, most of the people accept the essence of the internet in as much as this remains a recent phenomenon. It is however essential to consider that as late as 1995, an Astronomer known as Clifford Stoll authored an article titled as, "Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana". In his article, Stoll allegedly tries to predict that the future of the internet may turn out to be a baloney (Clifford, 1995). This paper therefore provides an analysis of Stoll into his that the computers and the internet would never be used in finding useful information and carrying out other functions.
Stoll’s Belief on Computers and the Internet
Stoll in his article purports that he is perplexed over the current manner in which the internet and computers are being used. In one of his allegation, Stoll mentions that:
"…Due to the cyber business, people have been promised instant catalog on shopping in which they are expected to just click for great deals. Airline tickets can now be ordered over the network, restaurant reservations and sales negotiations also carried out through this medium. Stores in this case have turned out obsolete. How come a local mall business does handles more deals that the entire internet handles in a month? Even if there were trusted ways of sending funds through the internet-which there isn’t- the internet lacks an essential detail of capitalism: salespeople.
Clifford, 1995
I his statement it is evident that Stoll never believed that the internet could have the capacity to be a useful source through which information and other deals could be carried out. It is therefore critical to determine that Stroll only focused on what technology could not do at that point of time rather than what the innovation could do in the future, a factor that point out to his failure (Clifford, 1995). This critically points me to a question on who does the "can’t do", culture hurt the most in the society. Ironically, this could hurt a people like Stoll, who never saw the future from the past and who apparently find negativity in the current innovations.
Stoll’s non-belief on the capacity of the computer to find useful information, buy goods and services, teach classes, read books and socialize with friends was primarily based in his perception of the inclusion of human contact in carrying out these functions (Clifford, 1995). Stoll in this case believed that for these functions to be carried out there has to be human contact involved, a view that is clearly disapproved by this technology.
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