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The underground will never work A nice example of terrible prediction. ...

Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 10, 2013

Pointless, again Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins:Don't get too attached to MySpace. You might want to pull up stakes from Second Life, too. And you'll probably want to...

Posted by Johnnie Moore on June 17, 2007

Works in practice only The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.- Miikka Ryokas, computer science student quoted in the NY Times. Hat tip: John Winsor...

Posted by Johnnie Moore on May 5, 2007

YouTube and the end of the world as we know it I guess that "It will lead to chaos" counts as a high-energy varitation of "it will never work", which means this item becomes my second post in that category. Grant McCracken takes the mickey out of Lance Ulanoff for predicting...

Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 22, 2006

It'll never work Inspired by a post by Earl Mardle, I've added a new category to this blog, It'll Never Work. I'll use it to flag stories about experiments carried out in the face of scepticism. Well that's the plan... though of course...

Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 8, 2006