"How to ensure we can all reap the benefits of a safe and secure cyberspace for generations to come is one of the greatest challenges we face," said Mr Hague.
Then he noticed a phrase that was going viral on the Internet: "Jia Junpeng, your mother is calling you home for dinner!" The line's origins were a mystery, but the online masses latched onto it as a joking commentary on their Web-addicted generation — lost in cyberspace, unreachable by the outside world.
And a new generation of Internet companies is taking the trade into cyberspace.The current book wars began in September 1995, when two publishers quit the Net Book Agreement (NBA), which forced retailers to sell at prices set by publishers.
Now he hopes to use this strategy to exploit the next generation of payment services to hit cyberspace: ATM debit cards for Internet consumer purchases.
Every so often, Black Eyed Peas turned to social commentary, like "Where Is the Love?," their all-purpose protest, or "Now Generation," celebrating, and warning about, the immediate gratifications of cyberspace.
Andrew Shapiro, a guest lecturer at Yale Law School and the author of "The Control Revolution," said that the early euphoria over cyberspace had been replaced "by a kind of 'technorealism,' a second generation of Internet books" that are much more critical.
We are entering an era when a single person can, by one clandestine act, cause millions of deaths or render a city uninhabitable for years, and when a malfunction in cyberspace can cause havoc worldwide to a significant segment of the economy: air transport, power generation, or the financial system.
Like most of her generation, when Iqra Ismail wanted to know what was going on in the world, she headed into cyberspace.
As technology hurtles them ever faster into a cyberspace future, I believe today's youngsters are, if anything, becoming more – not less – curious about the generations whose lives were so very different from their own.
Courts right now are laying the groundwork -- principles that could last for generations -- for how legal doctrines like freedom of expression and copyright will be applied in cyberspace.
