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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

In the Spring of 1996, international leaders in business, law, government, and education gathered at Harvard University to discuss the impact of the Internet, one of the most potent technological innovations of this century, on society. This volume, which includes presentations, discussions, and computer demonstrations from this ground-breaking forum, provides an expert assessment of the impact of this rapidly changing technology on business, government, media, and education for the next decade and beyond.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-A Note from the Editor.

-Introduction.

-Contents.

-Special Address.

-Keynote Addresses.

-Technology.

-Library & Publishing.

-Education.

-Health Care.

-Press & Politics.

-Public Policy.

-Law.

-Business.

-Panels.

-Name Index.

-Subject Index.

OUR REVIEW

Buried among the great amount of books that tell us about the technical, commercial and even practical sides of Internet, we missed a book dealing with the impact of the net on society from all viewpoints.

The Internet and Society is no doubt the work that we had been expecting. Its contents are the transcription of the Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society that was held between May 28 and 31, 1996, and that attracted the most important personalities of this world.

Here we will find interesting discussions on Internet applied to education, the medium technology, publication, the press and the politics reflected on the net, business, etc. The round tables have been transcribed with a total fidelity, so that we can relive what happened at the conference, or get to know for the first time what was said in them if we had not had the chance of attending. The fact of making into a book the conference of Harvard is indicative of the interesting ideas that were shaped during the days it lasted. In such a changing world like that of Internet, it will be nice to see how the multiple predictions that were formulated withstand the passing of time. Surely, the most interesting moments are those when the questions of the audience and the answers of the lecturers reach high peaks of controversy, thus proving once again that diversity is one of the strengths of Internet.

The book is accompanied by a CD ROM that contains all the printed material in hypertext format, as well as links to other supplementary information sources. The program Internet Explorer 3.0, easy to instal as it is, is provided for the visualization of the pages.