School networks are not in place. Students need a lot of help to define their purpose and steer them through the the vast amount of information online. In good teaching the computer must be secondary to the learning process. Teachers will have to aquire certain skills before they teach them to students, and long before they can reasonably expect student success. THE GOOD NEWS Computers have high computational power.
Computers have huge and accurate memory storage.
High memory storage is coupled with easy access. Like the printing press new kinds of jobs are being created. The internet is breaking the corporate model for news gathering and distribution. Publishers have no financial motive to publish on the internet. The trend for Industry to squirrel away more and more knowledge will be balanced by the accelerated pace of development and the researchers' need to share their findings.