Author: Robert K. Logan
Publisher: Stoddart Pub
ISBN: 9780773761049
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Internet is transforming learning and commerce and accelerating the evolution of the Information Age into the Knowledge Era. Web pages and sites, intranets, extranets, and hypertext come together in cyberspace to form one huge Global Network -- the realization of Marshall McLuhan's Global Village. How we respond to the challenges and opportunities that are presented by this burgeoning technology will have a huge impact on whether we will be successful in our future learning and work endeavors. In his provocative new book, Robert Logan submits that the Internet is more than just a technological toy; rather, it constitutes a new link in the linguistic chain, joining speech, writing, mathematics, science, and computing. Characterized by a unique semantics and syntax, the Net forms another distinct step in the evolution of human communication -- the sixth language.