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"There remains the problem that the people we most want to educate - for instance, the faith

heads of Afghanistan - can't afford personal computers," he said.

"The best experts I can find all expect the exponential increase in computer power per unit cost

to continue at the present rate (doubling almost every 18 months) for at least another 10 years.

This is amply long enough to ensure that access to the internet will be virtually free to anyonewho can afford the electricity."

Dr Blackmore agreed that the development of the internet represented a crucial moment inhuman history but claimed that the impact was unlikely to be so positive.

"Several million years ago a dramatic evolutionary change occurred on this planet when people

started imitating each other, and that created the nucleus for education," she said. "In the last few

years we have set off another evolutionary change of just as much magnitude by creating

networks of computers linked by telephone lines.

"A lot of people seem to think that we set this up for our benefit and that we are in control of it, but a moment's thought shows that it is not."

She raised the spectre of human teachers being "sidelined by more efficient knowledge

manipulators" in cyberspace

"We will get beyond the point where humans are needed to control the technological structure sothe question would arise of what place for emotions like love, compassion and other uniquely

human things. But there is no turning back now."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/oct/12/internetnews.schools