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Originally Posted by wizwor
Wow. This is a silly discussion to begin with, but is anyone actually, honestly contending that Wal-Mart would not be more successful absent the internet? Do people actually believe Bezos would have spawned a mail order book business absent the internet? That Sears plus shipping trumps Wal-Mart B&M?
Wal-Mart, Sears, and Home Depot survived the internet then learned how to leverage it. Border Books, Circuit City, CompUSA, and many others did not learn to adapt and perished.
The world changed with the rise of the internet, but it wasn't a boon for all.
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You could say the same for other tech. innovations of the past. The automobile for example. How many blacksmiths went out of business because it was invented? Some of them became car dealerships I imagine and survived but others couldn't or wouldn't and went out of business along with the buggy companies that didn't switch to making cars. And the television no doubt spelled a similar doom for at least some of the movie theaters (indoor and outdoor) since people could stay home to watch movies now. Even the old scribes who had been employed to copy manuscripts by hand had their doomsday with the advent of the printing press.