ABSTRACT
We live in an age of information and computers are revolutionising the ways that information is structured, made available and used. With the current speed of technological development the revolution is far from over although already there are many theoretical and practical aspects of interest to archaeology. Not least is the challenge that has been mounted to the primacy of the printed page, a technology that has been at the core of Western culture and communication for five centuries. The functionality of hypertext and the availability of distant information online are re-defining the processes of teaching, learning, research and communication. This is the electronic element of much wider changes in social relationships and the way we interact with each other. The fluidity and uncertainties of the postmodern condition are embraced within an informational milieu that downgrades objective meaning and offers endless contextualised reinterpretation. These days, information is not just power, information is being.
