Imagining the Internet

A vision for the future

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Name: Doug Roberts

From: Australia

Bio: Internet User, Web Developer, Bachelor of Science

Area of Expertise: Technology Developer/Administrator

Topic: General, Overarching Remarks

Headline: A special property with constitutional implications.

Nutshell: Unlike other physical technologies (the bomb)and natural occurences (a storm), you can switch it off...
or can you?

Vision: One thing is clear, if Internet Services are nor attractive to the general populace, they won't be used.

We will therefore need a constitutional right NOT to have Internet access (c.f. some Government announcements where you are assumed to have 'seen' the information on TV.)

Ignorance of the Law is no excuse, we are told, but what if the law is defined via the Net...? Shades of Brave New World?

Date Submitted: 11/10/2004