The Whole World is Talking
The Internet culture has its roots so deep, I don’t think it’s going to disappear.
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The Whole World is Talking
The Internet has grown without a clear plan or organization. There’s no government for the Internet. One of the great challenges is to establish some means of providing order and giving markers along the way.
The Whole World is Talking
You’re not going to find anything to the left of the Democratic Party on TV or in newspapers. This is our chance to be heard.
The Whole World is Talking
The role of capital as an editor is being removed.
Technology (A Special Report): A New World – Personal Effects: Amid All the Talk About the Wonders of the Networks, Some Nagging Social Questions Arise
People won’t use these networks if they don’t trust them. Internet is run by an increasingly large group of organizations, and nobody is responsible for security. That means users have to be able to protect themselves, and encryption is the solution. [Unless privacy and access issues are solved with an acceptable public policy, similar to the rules that govern the telephone system today,] you create fundamental problems for democracy.
Technology (A Special Report): A New World – Personal Effects: Amid All the Talk About the Wonders of the Networks, Some Nagging Social Questions Arise
With millions of users pounding away on their keyboards, it may turn out that everybody is talking and nobody is really listening. By the same token, connecting with one and all in the electronic ether could leave people more disconnected than ever before, as the necessity of face-to-face contact diminishes. If a troubled or shy office worker easily finds solace and approval on the networks, will she be less inclined to seek out friends on the job?
Technology (A Special Report): A New World – Personal Effects: Amid All the Talk About the Wonders of the Networks, Some Nagging Social Questions Arise
What are the psychological implications for a high-school student who spends his evenings inhabiting the persona of a 28-year-old woman? Though these cases may sound extreme, they’re hardly unthinkable. “By being between reality and unreality,” [Amy] Bruckman says, such contact “helps us reflect the nature of reality.”
The Whole World is Talking
The Internet today is still for computer weenies. But the problem will take care of itself … Communities, whether virtual or physical, should be self-determining rather than determined by megacorporations.
Technology (A Special Report): A New World – Personal Effects: Amid All the Talk About the Wonders of the Networks, Some Nagging Social Questions Arise
We are talking about revitalizing local economies and civic instititutions. We are talking about improving delivery of government services, revitalizing the quality of public debate, reducing poverty and changing welfare as we know it.
Client/server’s Future is on the Web
Web browsers accessing multiple Web servers is the architecture for the next wave of client/server computing. Carry this approach a little further and we will see the resurrection of big applications running on big servers that are accessed by “skinny” clients running Web browsers – the modern equivalent of massive time-sharing machines connected to thousands of terminals. By the end of the millennium, we will see the start of the “Webconnected” society.