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BY TAYLOR WOFFORD

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In 1995, Newsweek published what would become a widely ridiculed piece of writing. It was a column by an American astronomer and counter­hacker named Clifford Stoll that predicted, among other things, no “online database” would ever replace your daily newspaper, e­books were too “clunky” to catch on and e­commerce sites would never replace malls because they lacked salespeople.

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Newsweek International
25th March 2016
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