IP: WORLD WIDE WASTING OF TIME

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

I think Gibson is wrong. Those of us who use it well understand. Like saying
PCs are a waste of time because some  people  play games djf




Sci-Fi author William Gibson, who coined the word "cyberspace," says the
World Wide Web "offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander
aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on
the far sides of however many monitors in that postgeorgraphical
meta-country we increasingly call home."  Gibson describes the Web as "a
procrastinator's dream," which offers the added advantage that "people who
see you doing it might even imagine you're working."  (New York Times
Magazine 14 Jul 96 p31)