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The only accurate statement in this article is that the government resisted commercial use of the the internet for a long time. The rest it total garbage, written by someone who denies facts to promote an agenda. This is what is really sad. I mean, come on, the government (primarily DOD) of course spearheaded ARPANET, NSFNET, etc. which morphed into the internet we know of today. It's indisputable - funding poured into universities, and into private contractors (like BB&N) to work on this. Even Silicon Valley itself, it can be argued, wouldn't be here if it weren't for the government in the early days. This is not to say that the government is wonderful, or that it is good, or should be larger in our lives, or anything like that - but, a FACT is a FACT. These birthers and creationists and other deniers just make up things to fit their models. To me, that is incredibly dangerous. And note that the guy who wrote this article has "impressive" credentials - Yale, law school, Rhodes Scholar. But he doesn't have a clue about how modern technology works! (equating Xerox's Ethernet with the "internet", for example). This is pathetic, and pathetic that the "venerated" Wall Street Journal would publish this nonsense. |