will beam us into the Twenty First Century.Technological change is often dependent on existing needs, and does not emerge all at once. That the rate and amount of technological changes are influenced by outside sources other than the specific technology at hand. One of these outside influences is our political climate, and how the laws of government can have an impact on the rate, amount, type, and by whom technology is developed. The Clinton administration, shortly after Bill’s inaugural address, had paved the way for a specific technology to advance at a high rate of speed. By vowing the government's commitment via dedicating funds for research and development, instituting certain corporate tax breaks, and creating the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) 2, to support his much-hyped information superhighway (or, more properly, Global Information Infrastructure).Thus “The World Wide Web." The World Wide Web is among the most rapidly adopted technological entities of a century that has seen many changes, and understanding it might be crucial for understanding the next century.The World Wide Web dates back to March of 1989. In that month, Tim Berners-Lee of Geneva’s European Particle Physics Laboratory constructed a proposal to develop a “hypertext system” for the purpose of enabling efficient and easy information sharing throughout the world’s researchers in the field of High Energy Physics. 3The basic proposal consisted of these components: A consistent user interface. (Availability) The ability to incorporate a wide range of technologies and document types. A “universal readership”; that is, anyone on the network, on a different computer, could read the same document as anyone else, and could do so easily. (Standardization)This idea would allow collaborative researchers to present their research, complete with texts, graphics, illustrations, and ultim...
