By recognizing the growth of CMC technologies and integrating them into technical communication education, the technical communication instructor can give students competency in a media increasing applications, scope, and importance.
We could have a digital wasteland of pablum served by business purveyors to couch potatoes obediently consuming it. Or we could have robust, diverse access to information in communities of any size and an uplifting of democratic principles in their best form.
Soon there will be more browser improvements that will have little to do with HTML or page manipulation but will facilitate data retrieval. Emphasized use of push-pull facilities.
Formats for citations of electronic resources must become standardized, so scholars can accumulate a record of their participation … The goal should be to eliminate self-consciousness in using the medium – ideally, the medium of computer-mediated communication should be transparent, freeing scholars to create ideas.
Custom protocols [will be] developed for interactive sessions.
Have computers become “geekfree,” or have we all become geeks?
“Doom”-like interfaces will be the next model for browsers … 3D scenes will be commonplace by the end of the year. Hot Java is actually about six years old. Ultimately, users will have complete control over how content is viewed.
By 1996, we will begin to see some number of campaigns either won or lost because campaign operations either use or fail to use network communication and organization.
Interactivity will be responsible for new metaphors; interactivity will be the ultimate user control for page layout; interactive browsers will let users redefine the layout of a site on the fly, at will.
Actual Internet/Web business application software is the growth market, not just browsers.