Newsweek article re the end of architectural excess  

Of course, Newsweek's predictions aren't always accurate.
Published in 1995:
"Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems .... Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper
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Try reading a book on disc .... you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
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Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet -- which there isn't
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Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee."
http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html

OPULENCE
I has it.

it's getting close to being...
it's getting close to being a dead profession here in America. no work around here. my colleagues are shifting professions, one even studied to become a nurse. sad very sad.