What is the world-wide web? Isn't that the same as the information superhighway? Is there really a tiny on-ramp and an off-ramp hidden inside every personal computer?
While Word-95 finishes re-paginating our documents, will we press obscure buttons to connect our dial-up modem and listen once again to its weird electronic tune? Can't we just get the whole world-wide web on a set of CD-ROMs to take home for later perusal?
Do printers and scanners talk to each other surreptitiously using fax connections in the dead of night? Do they conspire to produce paper jams that are perfectly timed to influence human behavior?
It is rumoured that some people might have upgraded to 64K ISDN connections, but maybe that's only the architecture companies, where they might need to send building plans to each other.
But now there's talk of a real network made up of conversations between actual physical people. People making small-talk, generating ideas, and complaints, and shuffling these utterances all around the globe.
Some people are probably busily taking notes about what others have said, and are even now feeding these into machines that turn all of this chit chat into magic sequences that the always evolving world-wide web can truly digest.
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