Significantly, too, the hosts' biggest customers are also becoming the biggest users of the Web. Conclusions It would seem that as always technological hype and anecdote precede reality by some margin. Most models of technological change indicate that it's never that quick, never that straightforward and never that revolutionary. And that is very much the case with the Internet. It is best to look to the past, rather than the future as a guide to technological take-up.
Few journalists use the Internet but even fewer have made their mind up about it.
Things are changing all the time and there is still a lot of technology in the pipeline so this subject will be returned to next year. The really big concerns to emerge from the project were the future of the hard-copy newspaper if and when news reporting migrates to the Web, and the technological dilution of the journalistic process. So it would seem that, so far, Simon Jenkins has been right about the Internet in that it is a niche information player. The Times 4th January 1997, p16. The Internet and the changing information environment.