Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives

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. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out—to put that imagined future in perspective. Interlaced with revealing analysis, t...