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Why the Internet Will Fail (from 1995)

Lincoln Cannon

5 March 2010 (updated 5 January 2026)

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"No Reason" by Lincoln Cannon

Writing for Newsweek on 27 February 1995, Clifford Stoll claimed, “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.”

Computing continues to change the way we work and play, expanding our capacities in ways previous generations could hardly imagine. Not a few have been excessively skeptical of the possibilities, displacing considered questioning with indiscriminate dismissal. Not a few continue to indulge in that excess.

Faith need not be blind, passive, or unreasoning. Practical faith is not merely a cognitive position. It is a creative will, seeking a way to empower its desires.

Maybe we can engineer solutions to climate change, over-population, aging, and even death. No way? Way.

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