022. Injecting New Ideas and IQ: The Information Superhighway

“We’ll need people on roller skates—like in the old days when computers had vacuum tubes—replacing disks as they failed.” —NathanM

In 1993, it would have been difficult to overstate the hype surrounding the “Information Superhighway”. Whatever definition or capabilities it might have, it consumed the imaginations of everyone from Wall Street to Main Street with magazine covers, morning news show pieces, investor conferences, and more. Microsoft had risen with the juggernauts of MS-…