Life on the Internet

The medical profession has discovered the Internet as a powerful tool to speed diagnosis and exchange treatment plans. One doctor has even discovered a whole new condition, Internet Addictive Disorder - what can happen if you spend too much of your life on the Internet.

Hollywood's heart, it has been said, is the place just below its wallet. So imagine its heart rate when it discovered the marketing potential of cyberspace. Find out how Josh Greer is helping to bring the Big Screen to your desktop.

The future of the Internet points to its continued growth in practical usefulness - eventually becoming a ubiquitous fixture in our normal lives, quite possibly as common a household utility as the telephone.

In education, like almost everywhere else on the Internet, the impetus has come form the grassroots up - not from the top down. And the education establishment is now discovering that individual schools, educators and parents are simply no longer prepared to wait for the old system to catch up and introduce the Internet in a traditional, widespread and orderly manner.

In space there is no sound. Not so in Cyberspace, where new audio Net technologies promise to let us hear the world's chorus, and become our own broadcasters.

No one is native to cyberspace; we are all immigrants, colonizing the net in droves. But who, exactly, are we sharing our dual citizenship with, and how are we changing the face of the net?

Online sales were expected to reach $1 billion by the end of 1995. Out of the thousands of hopeful "cyberpreneurs", who'll make it, and how will they do it?

Newsgroups are the town square of the Internet; a place where literally millions of people gather to debate, preach, get information or just leave a group message for anyone who cares about the same subject.

In the fiercely competitive world of magazine publishing, only the smart and strong survive. In the seemingly non-hostile environment of cyberspace, can electronic magazines escape the laws of Darwin?

Law enforcement agencies say in the wrong hands (PGP) and E-mail encryption software threatens the public good. Its author, Phil Zimmermann, says it's about anyone's right to personal privacy.

E-mail has changed the way people live and work. Find out how, and how a particular software author helped make it easy for millions of people to communicate with each other.

From official religions with millions of followers, to sites for potential cults still looking for their first converts, the Internet offers a spiritual smoegasbord for every hungry, curious or questioning cybersoul.

Electronic cash has already entered the flow of money that makes the world go 'round. But are we ready to take the final step and open our wallets to cyberspace?