Christopher H. Sterling. The amounts of money involved are mind-boggling, but several issues raised by the merger are more important. Kenneth Neil Cukier. Technology will eradicate today's notion of news, as it has in the past. Steven M. Schneider.
Political portals pose two main threats to good democratic practice.
Libraries, the New Media and the Political Process . No doubt we can look forward to Internet voting as a feature of future elections. Yet as we do, we will do well to remind ourselves that the pursuit of knowledge and self-enlightenment lies at the heart of our democracy. Effective citizen action is possible when citizens know how to gain access to information of all kinds and have the skills to become responsible, informed participants in our democracy. Hammond and Jonathan Lash.