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Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.

The plan, according to a consensus of experts … is that every home will eventually be wired and … this access will make our lives fuller, richer, easier, more wonderful somehow. Will it? Probably not … We are talking about a machine here; a pretty interesting one, but basically a big machine that spits data across long distances … Ultimately we just connected to one another, and that doesn’t make us any different; it just means we are more in touch.

Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?

I propose to abolish all public grants for schools and colleges and instead give the money directly to families in the form of “micro-vouchers” to be spent on anything that nurtures the spirit and teaches new skills.

Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?

A decade ago, Ronald Reagan said in a speech that he was looking forward to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the “Evil Empire.” Most people thought he was talking about 200 to 300 years from now. Today, we know that it took only a few years … When it ended, it ended in one big bang. That’s what I see happening in the arena of education.

Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?

The very notion of traditional education will become obsolete. The new technologies that are now being developed will enable people of all ages and social conditions to learn anything, anywhere, at any time. Learning will not be based, as it is today, on mechanisms of selection and exclusion. Diplomas will disappear. Instead, people will get certificates (the same way we get driver’s licenses) to show potential employers that they have specific skills, talents, or knowledge.

The World-Wide Web

[We look forward to] integration with concurrent editors and other real-time features such as teleconferencing and virtual reality.

Internet Evolution or Revolution?

There will be a major consolidation of Internet providers by 1997. Small providers will be acquired by larger ones or simply forced out of business. Those remaining providers will have blacklists of offensive subscribers and will have strong “content quality” rules, although they will never use the word “censorship.”

Internet Evolution or Revolution?

By 1997, e-mail will still not allow the transparent interchange of arbitrary types of nontext files. However, a large underground community and creative businesses will be taking advantage of the Internet as a vehicle for multicast multimedia.

Internet Evolution or Revolution?

By 1997, most people will still think that the Internet and the World Wide Web are synonymous.

Home Entertainment: New Off-Ramps On Info Highway For Couch Potatoes

In our time, under the prod of the new technology, entertainment and information services will ultimately follow the same historic pattern. Profound changes are seldom abrupt, and the broadcasting industry will probably do everything in its considerable power to delay or derail any shift to other delivery methods.

Home Entertainment: New Off-Ramps On Info Highway For Couch Potatoes

With so many channels available on the information highway, the producing companies will not be able to maintain any form of monopolistic control. When the pipe is wide enough to carry everything, they won’t be able to restrict their product to a few preferred outlets. The technology will force the market open.

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