The Internet and the Web are to the 90's what Rock'n Roll was to the previous decades. Individuals create home pages, collect information and publish their message to the world the same way bands started to play in their garage and obscure clubs. This is why creativity and invention is most likely to take place there and not over a centralized one-way broadcast medium. This is where the distinction between technology and culture is crucial. Culture and content are intimately linked.
Technology is only there to make it happen.
The rapid development of the Web raises new issues from privacy to copyright to giving children access to unfiltered information.