And so on. Any new gadget, publication model or software program being dreamed up right now has the Web in either the fore or background of that dream. Yet despite its lock on the future, the Web's got problems, not the least of which is that it's not turning just a whole lot people on as yet. Technologically, the problem is simple to pinpoint. It's too darn slow.
People get stuck, they turn it off.
So one of the challenges is to make do. To put some of the magic that had everyone so excited about the Internet a few years back into its present lumbering form. So far, peddling information has meant publishing. Because that's what the technology can handle. Turn on your computer and read.