In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed," William Gibson famously wrote in 2003. With the benefit of 2020 hindsight, we can add this about the era he was describing: the future was also unevenly believed. Even when it was right in front of us, we couldn't see it through our assumptions. This was especially true of the things we were most passi...
The early internet kept showing us the future, and we rolled our eyes every time
Mashable - 11 Oct 2020 17:00
In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed," William Gibson famously wrote in 2003. With the benefit of 2020 hindsight, we can add this about the era he was describing: the future was also unevenly believed. Even when it was right in front of us, we couldn't see it through our assumptions. This was especially true of the things we were most passi...
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