Like a day shopping at the West Edmonton Mall. I have also had great pleasure in seeing directly how valuable internet can be. I know how the Siberian Traditional Medicine College is using internet to help Alaskan Native peoples revive their skills. Taos, New Mexico has a great WWW site, the La Plaza Project, promoting both tourism and community services. I experience both disgust and delight.
Internet is a great promotion device.
We, as a university educational centre, use it to promote CED world-wide. Internet cannot build communities. And you can't do it sitting, staring at a computer screen all the time, talking to friends in Australia. And I am convinced that unless CED takes great care to keep human issues the priority, we will all too easily fall into promoting CED without ever actually doing it. The real issue is values, not technology.