Working professionals have little patience with new learning when their job pressures are strong. It can be a balancing act learning and working. Effective ways to reduce the stress of the constant upward force of new technology, and help to integrate our growing capabilities into the fabric of our lives. These are clearly the days of Future Shock and things are not going to slow down. As people we have to have some feelings that we control our environment to be happy.
Computers offer a new way to extend that control when used functionally.
Letting the technologists and the salespeople set the pace is disturbing to many people. Along with others, I see the current state of the net as more hype than reality. The net is many things to many people, but first and foremost, it allows a tremendous pool of global energy and skills to be tapped. Instead of an isolated productivity device, we now have access to the growing world's cyber consciousness. Along with more resources for using information in constructive ways than ever before.