The growth of the Internet will slow drastically [as it] becomes apparent [that] most people have nothing to say to each other," the economist Paul Krugman wrote in 1998. "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's…. Ten years from now the phrase information economy will sound silly."

I don't know if that was even a valid argument 15 years ago.  We were playing command and conquer , then myth, in 98 with cable internet. Zoooooooom, muahahahhahahhaha.

I think the internet was becoming huge already by then.   That last sentence makes absolutely zero sense.   Information has always been trending towards global reach In the easiest path possible.  Smoke signals, Newspaper,  morse code, Telegram, radio, tv, why would Internet be any different, esp considering universities on the arpanet were sharing info quite efficiently and easily.    Mkrugman is a choag, sounds like a good description if it's not a real word, haha,