Legislation and codification of online behavior will be called for, but will be impossible to implement. There may be a major court case involving online activity and debate within international organizations about online behavior.
CMC scholars will continue to meld theoretical approaches from other disciplines to examine the experiences, expressions, and contexts of CMC possible on the Internet today.
I see the current situation as containing enormous potentials for expanding domains and extents of freedom but also as fraught with harrowing dangers. Just at the time when it appears to many that we are stalled politically, the limits of what can be done are in my view broadly expanded.
It’s supposed to be commercial. The commercialization of the Internet is the proof that what we are doing was worthwhile. It was not just an intellectual exercise for a few professors.
By the year 2000, long-distance video conversations will be a commonplace feature of the Information Superhighway.
To some extent, it’s a “Field of Dreams” business plan – if we build it, they’ll come. We’re not really sure.
Does the fact that people type these words into a machine give them some different status than if they were just speaking out on the street corner?
It’s going to change things the way the advent of the railroads changed people. In the next five to 10 years, we’ll live our lives differently.
Some studies suggest the superhighway might even speed up medical claims, thus cutting health care costs by 20 percent … Experts are talking two million characters per second – a forty-fold increase in speed over current technology. If applied to the 55-mph speed limit, it would mean cars zooming at 2,200 miles per hour … [It will be] “more significant than the industrial revolution.”
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.