Learning from the Net

Learning from the Net

Edward Tenner

The end is Nil. That's the National In- formation Infrastructure, of course, the amorphous web-to-be that has become an inkblot test of the na- tional psyche. Some proponents dream of a 24-hour global symposium combining the best of Madame de Stael and Mortimer Adler, while skeptics fear a future of conference calls with the likes of John Wayne Gacy and Joseph Goebbels. Some fear a surveillance machine of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Inter- nal Revenue Service, others a witches' sabbath...

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