I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

The future is now.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

This is not the definitive study, but it certainly advances the field and it adds new information about how powerful these simple changes can be,