"Networks
for People"
Keynote Presentation
Gary
Chapman
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"Networks
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Cons
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The Internet is leading a historic economic expansion that is creating unprecedented wealth.
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Inequality is growing, and is strongly tied to technical skills and access to technology.
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The Internet is fostering an explosion of creativity, communication and cultural diversity.
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The Internet is increasingly part of a vapid and commercialized mass-media culture.
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The Internet will revolutionize education through distance education, lifelong learning, and access to vast stores of information.
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Technology can help in education, but the problems people have in learning are not technological in nature.
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This slide represents the increasingly dual and somewhat contradictory nature of the Internet. We have several different visions of what the Internet should look like in the future -- one vision of a universal and unfettered and largely free "information superhighway," and another vision of the Internet as a mass medium supporting a new kind of commercial service not unlike cable TV. The future of the Internet has not been settled yet, and there are arguments on both sides of the table above.
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