Some Comments on the London Times Educational Supplement Article
It’s like trying to predict back in 1910 the impact of the automobile on society – the highway system, gasoline refineries, motels instead of hotels, new dating patterns, increased social mobility, commuting to work, the importance of the rubber industry, smog, drive-thru restaurants, mechanized warfare, and on and on. The net will bring more than quantitative changes, it will bring *qualitative* changes. Things that were impossible will now become inevitable.