Work and leisure will be more blurred, unless considerable discipline is applied. Fourth, convergence of media. Computers will be used increasingly as communication media, for sending or receiving facsimile and e-mail, acquiring information from databases, online video entertainment and socialising with virtual communities. This technology will require rearrangement of the daily life of the users, and pose time management problems. If the experience of those who are hooked on the internet is any indication, this may be a real lifestyle problem.
Food habits are likely to change further, with infringement on mealtime.
The most direct impact will not be from technology, but from the communication itself. In this sense, the technology has an indirect effect as it provides the facilities for communication. The process and content of communication, no matter through which channel or technology, will affect audience and user. The surveillance of the environment. Judgements will be about what is actually important and relevant, and what is true or certain, with more information and probably more distillations of it.