[sgwealti]

Paul Krugman responded to this a few years ago: http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-inte...

The article the economic impact of the internet quote came from wasn't a scholarly article or his normal column, it was a fun, let's make some provocative predictions type article.

[Torgo]

His normal column hasn't been much better, for years now.

[tps5]

It's a mystery to me how he's gotten away with handing in what amounts to the same column every week for the past couple years.

Whether I agree with him or not, I find his haughty, didactic tone very off-putting.

[otaviokz]

A "a fun, let's make some provocative predictions type article" sounds like something very unprofessional to me. Also there seems to be a suspicious pattern of claiming exactly that after such an embarrassing prediction is made. I doubt the same would be claimed if he had happened to be right about the internet and the information economy.

[Jtsummers]

> "a fun, let's make some provocative predictions type article" sounds like something very unprofessional to me.

Knuth was published in the very unprofessional Mad Magazine. What's your point?

[ConceptJunkie]

Knuth wasn't wrong. His potrzebie system is detailed and consistent. ;-)