In “Silicon Snake Oil”, Clifford Stoll, the best-selling author of “The Cuckoo’s Egg” and one of the pioneers of the Internet, turns hisattention to the much-heralded. Silicon snake oil: second thoughts on the information highway. Author: Clifford Stoll. Publication: ยท Book. Silicon View colleagues of Clifford Stoll. top of page. In Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, the best-selling author of The Cuckoo’s Egg and one of the pioneers of the Internet, turns his attention to the.
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He saves most of his reservations for the trend at the time to computerise education and worries the educational benefits of computers and ‘net access are being oversold. I read Cliff’s book “The Cuckoo’s egg” about tracking down a hacker. Oct 30, Meghan rated it it was ok. I really respect Mr. Each of these ideas, Stoll writes, is based on either speculation or “a technocratic belief that computers and networks will make a better society.
Stoll deals with the issues of information overload, signal to noise on Usenet and sikicon this technology will really turn people into infonauts or just passive consumers of the fire hose of information coming from another glowing box on our desks.
He knows computers; he loves his networked community. There may be some interesting ideas that are still relevant for discussion today however it’s hard to tell because of the numerous predictions that in hindsight completely wrong.
Silicon Snake Oil
He does offer some important ideas to consider and some vivid examples of how the promises of the Net have been over-hyped. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. By all means read the Cuckoo’s Egg, but pass on this one. I first came across Clifford Stoll while reading the excellent Cuckoo’s Egg.
Published March 1st by Anchor first published Account Options Sign in. Clifford Stoll is an astrophysicist who wrote The Cuckoo’s Egg: The bad part is, he cliffore correct only in the short run. The good part is that at the time, he was correct in puncturing or deflating a lot of the most hyperbolic claims about the benefits of computers and the Internet: Of course, Stoll was mostly wrong, and that’s why we don’t hear much from him anymore.
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And it was indeed interesting to see the insight the author had about the effect of and problems with the internet. D, so listen up! You don’t need a computerto And, at snakw end of the journey, we’re all a bit wiser about what this thing called the information highway really was, is, could, and should be. Jan 08, Scott rated it it was ok. I liked this as it has that “Luddite” flavor. But unlike TCE, we miss all the mystery about nameless hackers that are being hunted. If social interactions on the screen can ever replace physically meeting people.
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I was interested in this book because of its commentary on the internet from what is now 20 years in the past. Apr 17, Josh Marquart rated it liked it.
Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
I call this the Amara effect, after Roy Amara: Although the internet took a different path than predicted in Silicon Snake Oil, it does provide a good description of surfing the World Wide Web when Mosaic web browser was the only web browser, Gopher protocol was used to find documents and the Bulletin board system required users to call another computer’s modem.
Nowadays, it’s funny to go back and read Stoll’s description along the lines of “what, they really expect me to buy books and newspaper on the internet? He’s definitely off on the majority of his predictions on where the internet and the web built on top is going.
This when the World Wide Web was still know by the browser Mosaic.
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You don’t need a computer to A cautionary tale about today’s media darling, Silicon Snake Oil has sparked intense debate across the country about the merits–and foibles–of what’s been touted as the entranceway to our future. Clifford Stoll is a treasure for the IT community and Stlll highly recommend his book, yes even all these years later. An old book by Clifford Stoll on the perils of uncritical incorporation of online everything into our daily lives.
But unlike TCE, we miss all the mystery about nameless hackers t This was the first book I ever read that made me think technology is not all this it is cracked up to be.
You’re done in 1 minute. Time and again he worries we will turn into one dimensional beings denied the “authentic” experiences of actually seeing, clifvord, smelling and interacting with things in the real world.
I read this not long after publication, and re-read it a year ago weeding through my books. Involved with networks since their earliest days, Stoll has watched the Internet grow from an improbable research project into a communications juggernaut.