Networked communities will teach their children better, fight crime better, get better health care. SeniorNet provides such services to our senior citizens. We are increasing the availability of government informaton. HUD, today, has begun to put info about fair housing and fair lending on the net. We can empower our representative democracy.
Massive parallelism is a model for democracy.
People closest to the problems are the smartest about solutions. The printing press was the anabling technology that gave rise to our original form of democracy. We can only imagine what the future will be. We will ensure that the NII is developed in the public interest. MIT's Athena system has online volunteer tutors in every discipline.