The internet established an innovative and user-friendly platform for efficient, live
and timely exchange of ideas and products. The pace of development demonstrates that
the internet restructures the lives of people and social interactions worldwide. Dertouzos
(1997) suggests that ICTs alter how we work and play and will revise deeper aspects of
human life and humanity, such as how we receive healthcare, how children learn, how the
elderly remain connected to society, how governments conduct their affairs, how ethnic
groups preserve their heritage, whose voices are heard, even how nations are formed. On the
on hand, technology enables the personalization of information. Products and services to
individual needs and desires. People will have the tools to design the information they
require and ask service providers and intelligent agents to filter all external messages
according to their needs, circumstances and even moods (Negroponte, 1995). On the other
hand, ICTs also enable people to socialize and interact not only with their local community
but also with a virtual community, which may be scattered around the earth.
- Technology enables the personalization of information, products and services to individual needs and desires
- ICTs enable people to socialize and interact with their local community
- Virtual communities are being established
- Digital-living places less emphasis upon people being in a specific place at a specific time
- The Internet introduces new services such as home-shopping, tele-entertainment, tele-working, tele-banking
- The Internet provides niche markets with access to specialized information & services
- The Internet can also introduce a wide range of political, economic & social threats
- The Internet encourages transparency & interactivity in the society
- It also empowers individuals to research on major issues and decide their standing for themselves