No need to travel to a research library since full-text magazine articles are on the Internet. Increasingly, information will be available only in electronic format. Children need to have good information in order to have a say in how their society is run. That will be impossible without electronic information skills and access. Internet skills will be increasingly demanded by businesses.
Commercial accounts are now the fastest growing segment of the network.
Dayton-Hudson's and WalMart's use of computer networks to track inventory and consumer demand has resulted in increased profits. Just as businesses that do not effectively use telecommunications will not survive in tomorrow's economy, our children who do not have telecommunication skills will not survive in tomorrow's businesses. Internet skills are imperative to post-secondary academic success. Universities have long used the Internet, and access for students is now a given at most of them. My daughter at the University of Minnesota was given an account as a freshman.