Predicting the technology is one thing. But predicting how that's going to change the way we live, that's something else. That's what the most interesting science fiction does. But I'm not sure that anybody really got their heads round that in thencase of the Internet - I mean, predicting things like the Mudcat, or file sharing.

In the same way when people thought about stuff like mobile phones, they thought in terms of phone conversations, not of the way people use them to be effectively in two places at once.