Of course and what the internet could become is almost meaningless (through repetition) asked all the time. How do pop magazines mesh with technology progress over time? How real are these next steps or really different. Are there any models of this idea of the next step in the pop media or technical press or even the academic press and consumer prices for technology or Moore's law of decreasing processor size. As a further critique and why I am trying to do internet impact studies I believe there was very little new written about the internet in academia in the late and middle 1990's most was repetitive scholarship. Wired has been well critiqued by women scholars that I know of...mostly for sexism but also racism and abilist writing and being highly pro capitalist. What is missing is the plain none hyped impacts of the net. Witness my systems science course where we are studying bio- evolutionary models of economics and evolutionary algorithms and not one female scholar on our reading list. Very cool systems science views NOT. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
In fact, I imagine there are significant, perhaps impossible-to-overcome, methodological hurdles for one who would attempt to decide or measure what the Internet "is [for]."
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