Imagining the Internet

In the early 1990s people predicted the death of privacy an end to the current concept of property a paperless society 500 channels of high-definition interactive television world peace and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. <I>Imagining the Internet</I> zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions-and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.