Abstract The current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new

opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and
challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes their limited conceptual grasp of how
these technologies can benefit themselves and their students. For certain, the Internet as it currently
exists, is largely an undefined and unrefined information resource. This ostensible weakness, however,
provides early adopters of these infant technologies to participate in and to define the role of the
Internet for our discipline before it gets defined for us. Internet, its effects in our lives and the future of
the Internet: The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of
interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge
mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people¡¦s homes and offices. Despite the
recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were
linked together in the 1970sThe Internet is literally a network of networks. It is comprised of ten
thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range
from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite
the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that
were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems.

in technology, robotics, electronic miniaturisation, digitisation and information technology with its social
implications for human values and the future of work. It will argue that we have entered post modernity
or post Fordism, a new age technological revolution, which profoundly effects social structure and
values. Some issues that will be addressed are: elimination of work in the traditional sense, longevity,
early retirement, the elimination of cash, the restructuring ... future, and that the definition of work
needs to be far more liberal. It argues that as a post market era approaches, that both government and
society will need to recognise the effects of new technology on social structure and re-distribute
resources, there will need to be rapid development of policies to assist appropriate social adjustments if
extreme social unrest, inequity, trauma and possible civil disruption is ... we choose the former, the door
to a society filled with boundless possibilities will open; but if the latter, our future society will become a
forbidding and a horrible age. He optimistically predicts our new future society will be ‘computopia’
which he describes as exhibiting information values where individuals will develop their cognitive creative
abilities and citizens and communities will participate voluntarily in shared goals and ...