Universal Access to E-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications

It is critical that electronic mail be a basic service in a National Information Infrastructure. To the extent that public policy guides the evolution of the U.S. NII, it should consider universal access to e-mail as a cornerstone of that policy. Specifically, one-way information-providing technologies – whether broadcasting systems or technologies that provide only search and retrieval – are inadequate. Two-way technologies supporting interactive use and dissemination by all users are key. And everyone should be able to participate.

Universal Access to E-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications

As e-mail becomes more pervasive, as more commercial and government transactions in the United States take place online, those information haves may leave the have-nots further behind, unless we make concerted efforts today to provide all citizens with access to the technology.

‘The Online Users Encyclopedia’: Review by Steve Cisler

Telecommunications is so useful that in a decade lots of ordinary people will be using it to do ordinary (and some extraordinary) things.

Visions of Japan’s Internet Development: A Report on the Hyper Network ’95, Beppu Bay Conference

Wireless looks potentially like the best path to take. The Internet can support many types of media.

‘Striped-Collar’ Jobs May Fill Future Market

The line between office and factory, or “thinking work” versus “doing work,” will blur within a decade, say many people who attempt to study the future. Invariably, white- and blue-collar jobs will soon be joined by – and perhaps even be replaced by – “striped” collar jobs.

Attention Internet Shoppers: E-Cash Is Here

E-cash’s privacy and anonymity might be used to circumvent the Internal Revenue Service or other legal and taxing authorities. “Not true, simply malicious slander.”