Campus speaker meetings may be less appealing now that students can surf the world wide web's ocean of ideas and information. Campus-bound discussion groups cannot compete against Internet chat rooms and list serves that bring together diverse people from around the world. Campus meetings may therefore focus more on socializing and campaigning, or perhaps disappear altogether. Already the use of the internet has given the Alliance an international dimension that its founders did not anticipate. Most groups are in the USA and Canada, but students as far afield as New Zealand, Israel and the Ukraine have joined the Alliance.
Distance has no meaning in cyber-space.
At present the impact of the Internet is most apparent in our new student organization. The Internet provides exciting new opportunities for spreading ideas and coordinating activities. But in doing this, it may also diminish the role of traditional forms of organization. Local speaker meetings may decline. National groups centered around publishing may have to evolve or face extinction.