Elon University

Computopia: Sharing Stories Humanizes Computer Connections

The potential entails emphasis on personal connection. Not only must everyone have access to a broad range of tools and information, but they should take make something meaningful of the medium. Shallow, glossy, well-targeted salesmanship is a waste of technology.

Computopia: Sharing Stories Humanizes Computer Connections

When we are … connected through our computers, we can achieve collective creative heights. Computers have already changed the way we lead our lives. Doubtlessly they will continue to do so. What is up to us is utilizing the positive potential – figuring out how we’d like them to serve us, and demanding that of our technicians, as we make the Net in our own image.

Battle for the Soul of the Internet

[The Internet] needs to be subdivided into smaller neighborhoods. There should be high-class neighborhoods. There should be places that parents feel are safe for their kids.

Life After Television

The most dangerous threat to the U.S. economy and society is the breakdown of our cultural institutions – in the family, religion, education, and the arts – that preserve and transmit civilization to new generations. If this social fabric continues to fray, we will lose not only our technological prowess and economic competitiveness but also the meaning of life itself. The chief economic challenge we now face is how to apply the new technologies in a way that preserves the values and disciplines that made them possible in the first place.

In Search of the Cybermarket

Many of the futurists who see a new day dawning are going to be disappointed by what they find at dawn’s early light. The notion that people who spend dozens of hours watching sitcoms every week and never read a newspaper will somehow be transformed into Renaissance men and women by the availability of new information services in the home seems overly hopeful, to say the least.

Fire and Ice

The Internet will be to women in the ’90s what the vibrator was to women in the ’70s. It’s going to have that power.