Take Socrates, history's most famous illiterate. Next time someone tells you what a revolution the Web is causing, you can point out that hypertext and multimedia have always been how people think. Some say that computers are killing us. We've heard that before. The laws of technology are immutable.
Innovation brings chaos, followed by standards and real progress.
Why People Don't Use New Media Because the interfaces are so lousy, for starters. Why the Web Is So Slow The analogy to the information highway explains it well. Why Else the Web Is So Slow Bandwidth. The telephone network is smart inside and dumb at the ends. The Internet design is essentially the reverse.