This is a crucial point in the short history of the Internet. While the Internet, and community networks in Canada, became the dominant communication medium of the past year other technologies began to quietly take hold. Interactivity took a back seat in the general public mind because the media hype and big corporation hucksters gave it all a bad name. So it faded from the overall public mind while quietly seeping into the home and workplace, at the pace determined by individual users. Now most new computers have the capacity to receive television.
Multimedia is part of any new computer component.
Surveillance technologies are becoming more and more sophisticated. People are beginning to routinely access web home pages. Interactivity is here in a multitude of forms and different from what we were told it would be. The main message from all of this is, I believe, a simple one. The speed of communications increases the ability of people to react and interact on whatever they choose.