Silicon Snakeoil

The computer utopia heralded by fans of the Internet is expected to entertain, educate, and inform--by supplying the public with vast amounts of information and in the process turning the fractious world into a global village. In this intelligently written book, the bestselling author of The Cuckoo's Egg warns that we should pay attention to the bogus claims and hidden costs of t his so-called "Information Highway."