Carter Henderson
How the Internet is changing our lives
The Futurist 35. 4 (Jul/Aug 2001): 38-45

Abstract: Today, there is scarcely an aspect of life that is not being upended by the torrent of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep people in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. Probably the biggest payoff is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving the needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year. What is clear is that, whether people like it or not, the Internet is an ever-growing part of their lives and there is no turning back.

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