Submission + - Rancour over a 1995 bet whether technology made things better or worse by 2020 (wired.com) 1
joeblog writes: In 1995, tech optimist and Wired editor Kevin Kelly challenged tech pessimist Kirkpatrick Sale to a $1000 wager whether computers would make things better or worse by 2020.
Now that the quarter-of-a-century has passed, both sides claim they won.
Sale while a student in the fifties co-wrote a musical with Thomas Pynchon called 1958 about escaping a dystopian America ruled by IBM.
Now that the quarter-of-a-century has passed, both sides claim they won.
Sale while a student in the fifties co-wrote a musical with Thomas Pynchon called 1958 about escaping a dystopian America ruled by IBM.
