Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.