Apple's aesthetic seduction leads to the tech equivalent of a cheap fling, because the old model becomes not just obsolete but discontinued after a frenzied courtship. CD-ROM databases start to proliferate around the library as evidence of a new wave of information technology. The ability to access reams of facts and figures is literally at our fingertips. At other schools, computers and keyboards are installed in each auditorium seat to facilitate a completely interactive learning environment. Less than one year after graduation and the campus is wired.
Students plug into the Internet for next to nothing.
1995 Grad school in Silicon Valley. The computer lab is my first prolonged exposure to the Internet and the World Wide Web . All I know is that addictive personalities have another cause for worry. 100-plus messages a day, on every detail of every episode. Assignments fall by the wayside.