ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the people are continually confronted with dilemmas of access: efforts to increase access for some, invariably raise problems of access for others. Access to the Internet and its vast resources are generally considered a technical problem. In the United States, for example, state and federal officials recently announced ambitious plans to put "every school on the Internet". Assessing the credibility of materials, or persons, has both an internal and an external dimension: part of this process involves evaluating elements of the material, or the person. New technologies of communication and information sharing are drawing boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, influencing to a substantial degree the amount and kind of interactions that take place among people. Adopting new technologies changes what the people want to do, what the people try to do, what the people see it to be possible to do.
