@stefan

In all fairness, he also said:

»Some 25 years ago, as a gauche young science reporter, I wrote an article for the Daily Mail about a think tank report highlighting the fact that two million former internet users had given up on the technology, frustrated by high costs and slow dial-up speeds. The piece itself was fairly nuanced, but a Mail sub-editor, perhaps reflecting corporate unease about what the impact of the internet might be on print titles, christened it with what has since become an infamous headline: ‘Internet “may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it”.

After someone dug out the cutting, this has gone viral to such an extent that barely a day goes by on social media without someone sending it to me with understandable amusement to ask for an update on my prediction. I used to point out that the research was not my own, having been sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, was based on then verifiable facts and widely reported by other outlets, including the Guardian. Now I roll with it and embrace the infamy.«

https://www.cityam.com/the-notebook-james-chapman-on-getting-big-money-out-of-politics/