= What do you think about e-books?
I have a hard time believing people would want to read from a screen. I much prefer myself to read and touch a real book.
= What is your definition of cyberspace?
Our virtual space. The area of digital information (bits, not atoms). It is a limited space when you think of the spectrum. It has to be administered well so all the earth's people can use it and benefit from it (eliminate the digital divide).
= And your definition of the information society?
The people who already use cyberspace in their daily lives to such an extent that it is hard to imagine living without it (the other side of the divide).
*Interview of July 8, 2001
= What has happened since our last interview?
All I can come up with is the tremendous change I am experiencing with having a "broadband" connection at home. To be connected at all times is so completelely different from dial-up.
I now receive e-mail as soon as it arrives, I can listen to my favorite radio stations wherever they are. I can listen to the news when I want to. Get the music I like all the time.