There is something very impersonal about internet shopping. It may be convienient for hermits, or people who can not physically leave their house, but that is no reason to get excited about it taking over the old fashioned version. Ecspecially important is that you do not go and support it by buying all your shopping items on-line. I think it is imperative that people use good judgement in resisting technology to be sure that it does not completly take over everything that already is. It is the job of the entire society to keep malls in buisiness, and internet shopping sites a rarity.
Social interaction is among the most important aspects of a successful life.
It is going to be very hard if this society does not create the right balance of technology, and getting out in the real world to enjoy it. Social interaction is what makes us all humans. If this balance continues to lean towards the new information society, who knows what will become of the human race. Telecommunications can effect more than just the economy, and all the media conglomerates. It reaches more human levels than we would excpect.