By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's

- Paul Krugman, 1998

Excuse me if I take the Krug-o-tron's opinions with a grain of salt.

Keep your salt shaker handy because he produces opinions at a prodigious rate.

That personality type- highly verbal but able to produce talk to fit anything from a 5 second sound bite up to 2 hours, superficially bright but not actually thoughtful, full of spicy opinions, prone to predictions that sound interesting but don’t come true - is all over TV and now podcasts. Alex Jones is the same type.

Five years later, still mourning the dot-com bubble

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/2005...

for a view of the internet's impact on the economy in 2005.

internet delivered massive value post 2005, but that is outside of the window K called out.

So everyone who was wrong once 20 years ago should have their well presented insight dismissed without further reasoning?

The insider trading is pretty obvious right now.