Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-402) and index.
Foreword / Vinton C. Cerf -- Excerpt from "As We May Think" / Vannevar Bush -- Excerpt from Libraries of the Future / J. C. R. Licklider -- Excerpt from The Digital Library Project, volume 1: The World of Knowbots / Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf -- Excerpt from "Communication as the Root of Scientific Progress" / Joshua Lederberg -- Excerpt from "What Is the Role of Libraries in the Information Economy?" / John Browning -- Technological Revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth / Scott D. N. Cook -- Excerpt from "Libraries Are More than Information: Situational Aspects of Electronic Libraries" / Vicky Reich and Mark Weiser -- Excerpt from "The Electronic Capture and Dissemination of the Cultural Practice of Tibetan Thangka Painting" / Ranjit Makkuni -- Some Consequences of Electronic Groups / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj -- Netiquette 101 / Jay Machado -- Excerpt from "The MPC Adventures: Experiences with the Generation of VLSI Design and Implementation Methodologies" / Lynn Conway -- Excerpt from "Digital Communications and the Conduct of Science: The New Literacy" / Joshua Lederberg -- Excerpt from "Electronic Commerce on the Internet" -- Excerpt from "Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies" / Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates and Robert I. Benjamin -- Slaves of a New Machine: Exploring the For-Free/For-Pay Conundrum / Laura Fillmore -- Letting Loose the Light: Igniting Commerce in Electronic Publication / Mark Stefik -- Excerpt from "Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities" / Pavel Curtis -- A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trikster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society / Julian Dibbell -- Interaction Without Society?: What Avatars Can't Do / Harry M. Collins -- Excerpt from "Toward Portable Ideas" / Mark Stefik and John Seely Brown -- The National Collaboratory - A White Paper / William A. Wulf -- Internet Dreams: First Encounters of an On-line Dream Group / Barbara Viglizzo -- Epilogue: Choices and Dreams