In Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, the best-selling authorof The Cuckoo's Egg and one of the pioneers of the Internet, turnshis attention to the much-heralded information highway, revealingthat it is not all it's cracked up to be. Yes, the Internetprovides access to plenty of services, but useful information isvirtually impossible to find and difficult to access. Is beingon-line truly useful? "Few aspects of daily life requirecomputers...They're irrelevant to cooking, driving, visiting,negotiating, eating, hiking, dancing, speaking, and gossiping. Youdon't need a computer to...recite a poem or say a prayer."Computers can't, Stoll claims, provide a richer or betterlife.
A cautionary tale about today's media darling, Silicon Snake Oilhas sparked intense debate across the country about the merits--andfoibles--of what's been touted as the entranceway to ourfuture.
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