Lessons From The World's Wild Web

摘要

Speech, drawing, writing, mathematics, printing, photography, telegraphy, film, radio, television, internet: each of these represents a seminal stage in the history of information transfer and a quantum leap in power and range. The gaps between stages have shortened from millennia to decades to years as the curve depicting the speed of development rises ever more steeply.rnThe extent to which the internet will change human society and experience is still unclear, although many of the changes it has already produced are now commonplaces - even necessities - of daily life, such asrnemail, Google and Skype. All of one's work, entertainment and communications can already be concentrated in one portable device. Although for good reasons many people still congregate in workplaces and educational centres, how long will this last? Travelling to one's computer terminal in an office miles away, instead of working on it at home, will become comparatively rare as people are put off by transport difficulties and concerns over environmental impacts.