In recent years, the effect of the Internet has touched everyone, and will continue to do so. It is the twenty-first century personified, all the jazz of the Jetsons and the distinct intrusiveness of 1984. One look at the stock market and the flutters of commerce tell the whole story.
Stability appears to be a thing of the past.
This is now. The drive for newness in the virtual world consumes vast energies and resources, and the jury is still out on the return. The benefit of the technology is indisputable, but the entire cost is difficult to analyze. It's too recent. The whole 'virtual world' revolution, the information superhighway, has occurred in the space of one Internet generation.