The economic face of the Internet is overwhelmingly middle-class. With this kind of dichotomy, the Net could wind up a proprietary system, widening the gap between economic classes. Nogy noted that such has always been the case with new technology. Yet public libraries filled the gap. The same thing will very likely happen with computers and the Internet.
Any technology has the potential to be abused.
Technology, however, solves problems as well as creates them. Yet they provide a mobility and freedom that the average American could not otherwise have achieved. It's free on the Net. Even if they wanted to, governments could not keep information under wraps now. You can't stop faxes, e-mail and computer networks.