The Resonating Interval:
Exploring the Process of the Tetrad
By Anthony Hempell
Tetrads: Future
Internet
The Internet, in some form, is going to follow us (or lead us) into the
next century. Whether it will be an expanded version of the semi-public
global resource that presently exists, a patchwork of commercial
information services, distributed through the cable system, or a
myriad of other technical possibilities, we have opened the box of
many-to-many networked communication. For better or worse, it is a
popular idea: one that has been seized by academics, individuals and
non-profit groups as a way of cheaply communicating information not
readily available through other media; and more recently, by business and
government.
Where is the net going? I will leave that question to the editorial staff
of Wired; instead, here is a tetrad of what we've seen so
far:
![[tetrad diagram]](tetradsolo.gif)