Some takes age better than others, but it’s pretty safe to say that few have probably fared as poorly over the years as astronomer Clifford Stoll’s 1995 whopper for Newsweek, “Why the Web Won’t be ...

Clifford Stoll. Most likely, you’re hearing this name for the first time in your life or for the first time in a long time. I had never heard of Clifford Stoll until just the other day, thanks to ...

Critics of technology abound, but none cuts as deeply as a Geek Apostate. During the 1990s that role was held by a Berkeley astronomer named Clifford Stoll, who outsmarted a destructive hacker and ...

Notable accomplishment: Stoll is known for his 1989 book "The Cuckoo's Egg," which is a personal account of the hunt for a hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

In a celebrated 1995 article in Newsweek, astronomer Clifford Stoll blasted Internet visionaries. “Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?” he asked. “The truth is no online database will ...

Here’s a very funny 1995 Newsweek piece by Clifford Stoll debunking all the hype about the World Wide Web.* I think it serves as a useful antidote to a certain genre of writing popular on the Internet ...

*Not a whole lot. He's just a bright, eccentric guy of 70 who is amusing himself with his various intellectual and hobby interests. Something heart-warming about the fate of this guy – he's like he ...