The times they are a-changin'

The Web is an infant in the unfolding history of technology. Crawling, drooling on everything, smiling and gurgling, and making a racket when it needs to be changed.... We're lucky to be here in these early days, watching it grow and feeling its effects.

But technologies grow obsolete more often than they grow old. Remember CD-ROMs? Interactive television? Videophones? Beta? We do, and we'll confess to getting excited over the promises they held once-upon-a-time.

Yet this one feels different. This co-mingling of expression, a many-to-many broadcast format, is different from anything we've experienced before. We have a strong hunch that we're witnessing a revolution of sorts, and we're smack in the center of it.

The Web is still new and wonderful right now, but who knows what it'll transmogrify into tomorrow? Will it still be special? Will it still be fun? Will it still hold meaning and promise for us? Or will it become just another cable network on our set top boxes? We don't know. It wasn't so long ago that email was the big deal du jour, and look at how ingrained that has become in our daily lives.

Think of this as a jumping off point for exploring these ideas further.

Like your ancestors gathered 'round the radio, Culture Shock provides a forum for ideas and information. Here's what's playing:

 


  
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