SURFING THE INTERNET THEN NOW LATER.

This book describes the prospects of the Internet and the Web as a system covering: Surfing in Cyberspace Fiction and Reality Cyber-ethics Social Interactions other subjects related to the Internet and the World Wide Web. It covers the history of the Internet its current functions and the possible growth of the Internet in the future. It includes the Internet as a hybrid medium combining aspects of the printing press the telephone the public bulletin board and the private letter. It also covers transmission without the physical plant required by conventional broadcasting. Also the prediction of super-speed and a possible successor network that of an ‘information superhighway’ a term which refers to a unified interactive system of electronic communication.