Pros: Some excellent ideas and amusing anecdotes. Cons: Pretentious, logically unsound, and flat-out annoying at times.
For a book hailed as “a manifesto” by the Washington Post and that promotes itself as “the first book to question the inflated claims of the Internet,” Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll certainly falls short of expectations. Whether...
Pros: Excellent Historical Document of Internet Skepticism Cons: Out of date and mostly wrong
Why am I bothering to write a review of a book about the Internet written in 1995? Although out-of-date as far as the facts are concerned, skepticism about hype is always worthy of an audience. Furthermore, Stoll's ideas are fascinating to anyone who...
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