In her paper, she cites many examples how virtual communication enables people to communicate with one another with total disregard to physical attributes. Differences of sex, age, nationality, educational background, skin color, religion etc., attributes that have been the basis of history itself, suddenly, cease to be so important. Supply and Demand is the answer. The supply and demand of communication is what we need to start analyzing. Nine out of every 10 homes has access to a television.
Information is power and when information is available to everyone, everyone is empowered.
Economic well being is largely a function of the information available to an individual and when information becomes easily available to everyone, it is a safe assumption that the gross discrepancies in economic standards that prevail today will be reduced. An interesting meld of human communication patterns will ensue, just as they are now. While it is true that many prejudices are in danger of being rendered obscure by new mediums of communication technology, there is the risk that these prejudices can in fact be exacerbated by the same technologies. Many terrorist activities in Pakistan are attributed to have been coordinated via the Internet. The same is true of neo-Nazis in Germany and the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.