[ninjagoo]

> He predicted in 1998 that the internet would cease having an economic impact by 2005 and that it would be no greater than fax machines

The future is hard to predict. Using that as a reason to discount a Nobel-prize economist's economics-related work sounds like a gap in logic.

[nradov]

If economists can't predict the future then what good are they?

[cjalmeida]

If developers can’t produce code without bugs, what good are they? /s