The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

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.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

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.

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

The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.