During the 90s, Jason was working for Microsoft to help them drive the adoption of the internet. Jason describes what it was like from both a technological and cultural point of view and what the parallels are to Bitcoin today. Who got it wrong, and who got it right? Why? We also look into the environmental effects of Bitcoin mining and how it could actually become a carbon negative industry.
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Links mentioned during the show:
1994 TODAY SHOW “What is the internet anyway?”
Famous Newsweek article by Clifford Stohl “Why cyberspace isn’t, and never will be, Nirvana” 26/2/95
Famous Bill Gates and Dave Letterman clip from 1995 – Bill (badly) explains the internet
InfoWorld Article by Robert Metcalf (who invested Ethernet) “Internet will collapse in 1996”
Daily Mail, December 2000 “Internet may just be a passing fad as millions give up on it”
Paul Krugman “the internet will have no greater effect on the world economy than the fax machine”
Visionary – David Bowies 1999 BBC interview