That is exciting, because communication is the basis of culture. Culture is a process of communication among individuals and groups. We are amplifying and enhancing the foundations of culture and society with this communications revolution. All the dynamic and revolutionary effects we are going to see will come from these tiny chips being used in a communications mode. With the Net, we're going to see ideas of a type that were almost impossible to think about earlier.
Technology shapes our thought, just as our thought shapes technology.
We're in a period where technology is going to re-engineer and redesign the space in which we can have thoughts. One of the effects of this new-coming thinking and literary space, due to the Web and the Net, is a continual shift into a new sphere of thinking, which is ecological, relativistic, postmodern, full of uncertainty. Philosophically, this creates and further promotes the kinds of things we've seen happening in the culture in the last two decades. Moral certitude becomes more and more difficult to find. Agreement on some basic societal values becomes more and more difficult.