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Now here's something you don't see every day: it has been ten years since David Shenk's book "Data Smog" first appeared. Today, at Slate, the author himself revisits the book, acknowledges where he was wrong, and considers how much (and how little) the information overload has changed since 1997.
It's refreshing to see someone who wrote a book that was so fixed to its own moment in time and yet made so many assertions about the future willing to sit down for a few mea culpas. Of course, a lot of what he wrote was spot-on back then and only continues to be all the more real for us now, so he doesn't have to backpedal or equivocate at all; he can just admit to the few overblown assertions and/or bad predictions, confident that he did make his point the first time.
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