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The thing is, it grew from the bottom up. It began with the people, with two people reaching out to touch each other. The humanness of it is very compelling to me. It is not about technology, or bits and bauds and bytes; it is about people and communicating with one another … The Internet is the means of communicating in the future. You wouldn’t think about living today without a telephone. This is an extension of the telephone and the television. They are all coming together – media convergence. You can either get with the program or get left behind. I get more information into my mind in a six-hour session on the Internet than I do from all the books I read in a week. Most of the books, newspapers and periodicals I read are way behind the curve of information anyway. The Internet makes them largely irrelevant.

Where others saw a gimmicky device, I saw the promise, I guess – the promise of communicating with the world. This led to my later involvement in bulletin boards, distant delivery of education and the Internet. And the cyberspace as we know it today in the form of the Internet will be unrecognizable when compared to the future convergence of telephone, cable, computer and broadcast industries. And it’s happening as we speak!