• Chapter 1: THE NET AND NETIZENS: The Impact the Net has on People's Lives
  • PREFACE
  • CRITICAL MASS
  • GRASSROOTS
  • COMMUNICATION WITH NEW PEOPLE
  • BROADENED AND WORLDLY PROSPECTIVE:
  • MATERIAL CHANGES TO PEOPLE'S LIVES AND LIFESTYLES.
  • THE NET AS A SOURCE OF ENORMOUS RESOURCES
  • COLLECTIVE WORK
  • IMPROVING QUALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
  • WORK
  • IMPROVED COMMUNICATIONS WITH FRIENDS
  • PROBLEMS
  • CONCLUSION
  • Similar to past communications advances such as the printing press, mail, and the telephone, the Global Computer Communications Network has already fundamentally changed our lives. Licklider predicted that the Net would fundamentally change the way people live and work. It is important to try to understand this impact, so as to help further this advance.