The World Wide Web, WWW, or the Web as it is popularly known, has taken on a whole new dimension in human culture. We can now share any known fact in a single moment with everyone else, on and off-planet. Education can be as broad as the human imagination. Obfuscation is no longer possible.
Repression can only occur when openness is unavailable, and the oppressors are on the run.
The Free World has become the entire world on the Web. Given this wonderful metamorphosis, the opportunity to vastly enhance scientific and technical education is at hand. Access to virtually every scientific and technical discovery ever conceived and documented becomes the enabling force. For the next century, enhancements in technology will provide instantaneous dissemination of new ideas to the entire world. NASA, in its quest to develop technology for the conquest of space and the understanding of the laws of nature, has provided many of the tools that have brought about this revolution.