Electronic Information Environment

"Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?"
-- The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Converging, evolving, digital Web and media technologies
• Converging global communications networks merging with the Internet
• Comingling Web information, retrieval efforts and relationships mixed with online services