Web sites will turn the tables and find you, calling your home phone or paging you. The Net's connections will go every which way, not just from PCs to servers and back. The next wave of the Net is going to cost more. All those things you've been getting for free won't be that way much longer. Here's a more detailed look at how the Internet experience is changing.
Most users connect to the Internet to get on the Web and get their e-mail.
Obviously, that's not true. Radio waves can carry many kinds of signals, from FM radio to cellphone conversations to the cries of babies over wireless monitors in homes. Broadcast TV is just one big, compelling piece of the radio pie. The Net carries Web pages, but it can also carry much more in fact, almost anything that can be made digital. So far, the browser has been used as a gateway for almost any kind of Internet use.