Tuesday, July 1, 2008

15th Anniversary: 5 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely

Too entertaining not to share
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15deadthings

15th Anniversary: 5 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely
By Erik Malinowski 06.23.08

  • Commercial Web publishing (April 1996) Online news sites
    everywhere respectfully disagree.
  • Web browsers (March 1997) Push media was about to supersede browsers. Or not. If we could push this claim from the archives, we would.
  • Online song swapping (December 2002) Kazaa? LimeWire?
    BitTorrent? D'oh!
  • Futurism (December 2003) Predicting the death of
    predictions? Niiiice.
  • Brands (november 2004) Would someone please tell the tweens
    — and Abercrombie & Fitch, purveyors of the finest softcore billboards?
Any preditions on things that technologies that will be obsolete? The concept makes my head hurt too much.

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