ABSTRACT
We are, we are being repeatedly told, living in the age of information technology. We are surrounded by advertising which describes how this or that computer chip will take you and your family into the endlessly fascinating world of multimedia. This is a world in which you can know what it was like to live on an eighteenth-century warship (Stowaway), visit other planets (Planetary Taxi) or make choices for Sampangi as you follow his move away from a rural village to Bangalore (Discovering India). The message is simple: we now have the technology to inform, entertain and educate. Miss it and you, your family and your school will be left behind.
