With regard to the speed of the Internet and the availability of hardware, these situations are also improving at an exponential pace. Fast broadband networks, like Internet2, are on the horizon and these should help not only with the problems of interactivity and speed but also with retaining and retrieving information about the student. Additionally, a keen eye toward the Internet2 effort will show the way of the future for the education community. It may take longer for the future to be determined for the business community. At that time, the assertion in the title of that article was open to question.
Subsequent history seems to have settled it in the affirmative.
Now the question is about the future of the Web in education. The Web seems to us to hold promise for teaching and learning. Maybe we will know the answer in another sixteen years. Teachers College Press, 1980.