Resumen
The article focuses on the November 1997 speech of celebrity digerati Nicholas Negroponte, head of the MIT Media Laboratory, in Brussels, Belgium. He prophesied World peace through the Internet. According to the author, Internet will no more bring about world peace than it will solve world hunger. Wars and starvation are the plague of mankind, bought and paid for by human beings capable of the most generous acts, as they are capable of the most heinous. The author sees the role of the Internet as a kind of international arbiter of conflicts, issues and policies. The Internet alone will certainly not solve age-old problems that plague this world, but it may well provide a means to put a huge dent in some of them. Through the Internet one can marshal the world's foremost experts and bring them to bear on any range of problems. It allows these often lofty and academic experts to be tossed into the mix with real-world professionals, such as relief workers, field researchers, the ground troops of theory and rhetoric.