Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Harnessing the Internet for science
Friday, May 1, 2009, 7:59 pm No Comments | Post a CommentTen years ago, business and science reporters wrote a lot about Y2K, which was basically the concern that the date change from 1999 to 2000 would shut down the Internet. Instead, the Internet blossomed. A decade later, we’re just beginning to grasp what we should have really been worried about when we entered the 21st century: The Internet’s effects on the flow and distribution of information.
Brave new Internet world
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 6:40 am No Comments | Post a CommentMy husband Alan has been thinking a lot lately about the fact that our daughters will not know a world in which you mainly learned about your place in it through personal relationships, newspapers, magazines, television, radio and books.
