It's hard to miss the similarity between your book's title and Cliff Stoll's 1995 Silicon Snake Oil, an indictment of the general concept of the "information superhighway" that was starting to resonate with the public. Stoll is a really smart guy, but that particular book hasn't held up too well:

   Few aspects of daily life require computers...They're     irrelevant to cooking, driving, visiting, negotiating,     eating, hiking, dancing, speaking, and gossiping. You     don't need a computer to...recite a poem or say a     prayer." Computers can't, Stoll claims, provide a richer    or better life. 

(excerpted from the Amazon summary at https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Snake-Oil-Thoughts-Informatio... ).

So, was this something that you guys were conscious of when you chose your own book's title? How well have you future-proofed your central thesis?

His follow-up book "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway" was also a great read [0]. It's a shame that collectively we couldn't heed some of his warnings about the hype we were being sold about the Internet. In many ways the future he hinted at turned out to be substantially worse than he predicted.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385419945/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

Clifford Stoll's writing should be required reading. He missed some of the technological leaps of the past 18 years that improved adoption (this was pre-pre-Bubble) but the many of the ideas of human contact do ring true today. I was very surprised when I read this the first time around. He elaborated more in Silicon Valley Snake Oil, also from 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil

and

http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Snake-Oil-Thoughts-Information...