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5. Cellular phones rather than the traditional phone service are able to communicate
with the remote districts of the continent.
6. Enormous work had to be done to prevent breaking commercial codes or
organizing attacks before people can respond.
7. With new funds academic institutions and research installations will be able to
continue research, development and testing new computational systems.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
TEXT 6
Read the text and supply it with a title.
Most books and articles about the Net are "how to" works aimed at novices.
Many thousands of technical papers, proposals, conference presentations, meeting
notes, technical specifications and the like have been written. A few works have
treated the Net from the standpoint of sociology, psychology, library studies or
learning behaviour. Recently, an increasing number of researchers in the field of
communications have begun to study the Net as well. Interestingly, it seems that most
of the material treating the Net from the historical perspective has come from those
on the Net itself. Much interesting material has been generated on Usenet. In
addition, there are an increasing number of electronic journals which have made
important contributions, such as the Amateur Computerist, the Electronic Journal of
Virtual Culture and Computer Underground Digest. However, the study of the Net is
a field which remains undiscovered territory for the historian. The natural scientists
who study Man yesterday, today and tomorrow are the historian and archaeologist,
the anthropologist, and the futurist respectively; the Net should be of supreme interest
to each and all of them. The methods of statistical, social and physical sciences are
most suited to an atomistic world in which events are predicable and repeatable. The
natural scientist such as the astronomer or the geologist on the other hand might
concern herself with a quasar or a volcanic explosion; such events are not at this
stage of our culture predicable or able to be reproduced under laboratory conditions,
but are nonetheless of great interest to the natural scientist. In the view of the
statistical, deconstructivist social scientist who seeks to ape the physical sciences, the
Net may not be much good to study: it is a data point of one. There has never been a
Net like this in human culture. But it is equally a mistake to think that the changes
brought about through the Net are entirely unprecedented. Changes in
communications technology have often accompanied great social changes. We have
now a unique opportunity - to study a culture in its infancy. We know only that we
can not say for certain what the future of the Net may be. But that it is of tremendous
importance to the future history of humanity cannot be disputed.
Exercise 1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text.
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