abstract:Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway is a 1995 book written by Clifford Stoll where he discusses his ambivalence regarding the future of how the internet will be used and sets the tone in the preface by appologizing "to those who expect a consistent position from me. I'm still rearranging my mental furniture.
The Dow lead not only the business pages but the nightly television newscasts, and silicon snake-oil salesmen, stealing a page from the Y2K playbook, even jumped in to claim that five digits would melt the exchange's computers.