Explore OnNet: for Work and Leisure

Explore OnNet™ For Windows:

Using it for Work and Leisure

Summary

The Information Superhighway offers exciting possibilities in changing our computing environments for work, for education, for social and cultural exchanges. The superhighway is not totally built yet; it needs more fiber-optic cables for broadband transmissions, especially more high-speed onramps and offramps to support the near-immediate delivery of information that it promises.

In another sense, the superhighway has already existed for two decades to those familiar with network communications. However, now everyone has the opportunity to cruise the highway with new easy-to-use vehicles that will change how we live our lives. These new-generation vehicles are the multimedia information-gathering utilities of the Internet:

Electronic mail and electronic bulletin board facilities that millions of people have already integrated into their work and leisure activities (even before new multimedia features were available)
Internet lookup tools, like Gopher+
Information search servers available within those lookup tools, like Archie and Veronica
World Wide Web browsers, like Mosaic

Nobody yet knows the full extent of how we will use them. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that these multimedia utilities WILL in time change both our work and our leisure tasks.

Current users of the Internet are in one way the real builders of the Information Superhighway and will help change the way we do things:

Expanding our workplace by "removing walls," making our workdesk mobile -- as close as the phone (cellular or regular), at home or away from home.
Redefining the way we do leisure tasks, helping us to perform home chores and community commitments.
Redefining the way we gather social and cultural information , perhaps even creating new social and cultural venues based on the information gathering tools themselves.

Explore OnNet helps you make such changes: