Or, Why the 'Net will Never by itself, justify itself into our lives. I know that there is a tremendous amount of punditry out on the Internet, and that the noise is rather copious and the signal is often very small. I have seen it grow up into homes, workplaces, and people's lives. Businesses advertise their web pages and email addresses as ways of contacting them.
Families communicate more easily and cheaply than ever with the ubiquitousness of email.
Children now grow up in electronic communities as much as they grow up in the communities in which they live. Millions of people are just a short keypress or mouse click away. All sorts of facets of our lives are touched by computers, and their ability to Network, to share information with each other in an almost limitless way. More people are connected to the Net than ever before, and the growth does not seem like it will ever stop until every man, woman, and child is brought onto the Net. The Network will grow in importance as telephones, radio, television, and other information and communication tools have grown in importance.