We have recently learned that 98% of British youth aged 14 – 22 attending school full time use the Internet at least one hour a week.  According to the results of a European survey conducted in 2001 on the use of information and communications technology by young Europeans, almost 9 out of 10 (87%) used a personal computer at least once a week.  And Seymour Papert, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, goes even so far as to predict that in less than ten years, all children in nursery schools in the United States will have a portable computer.  In light of these statistics and predictions, one might think that the much discussed “Information and Communications Society” is about to become a reality.  More