The internet is a communications medium that has the ability toi ncrease cross-cultural communication and cultural sensitivity. People across the wired workd are able to meet each other online and begin the process of building cyber-communities. I wonder if all this wired socialization inhibits our personal connections. The internet has challenged my ideas on what free-speech really means. Of course, this would mean some sort of control ovber information and ideas.
Exploitation denies human rights.
Just as in the RW, I think that laws should be created to mimimize the exploitation of children for sexual purposes. Perhaps internet stocks will take a dive. Online user populations will continue rapid growth amidst all the Y2K hoopla. Connected with all this, business to business practices will be radically altered by the internet. Leading to, perhaps, an aliented and somewhat paranoid populace.