title: Living in the electronic age: musings on nearly two decades in Cyberspace.
abstract: My journey through Cyberspace began about 20 years ago with an introduction to e-mail. A few years later, I had the good fortune of working with artificial intelligence engineers who were developing information retrieval techniques and expert systems. By serendipity this led to an early introduction to the World Wide Web (www) and the use of Web browsers as tools for gathering information, long before the Internet became commercialized. Internet content and form are now so omnipresent that they have affected our language in both amusing and utilitarian ways. We are entering an era where social networking, from personal to professional lives, is potentially a vibrant new direction for the Internet. Future articles for this feature will explore how to maximize the utility of the Internet.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, and School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. gavrinj@uphs.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Gavrin
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D034742:Electronic Mail; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D010146:Pain; D010166:Palliative Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012657:Self-Help Groups