We are in the "Age of the Expanded Mind". I think TV was the start of it. We could sit in the privacy of our homes, and get a view of the whole world thru the TV camera.

Computers take us to the next level....interactivity with the whole world from the privacy of our homes. This is going to become bigger than most of us realize; where quite soon, we will all be capable of being our own TV stations, sending out our "channel" over the internet.

So I think you have to distinquish between "programming" and "programming for the internet".

Personnally, if there was no internet, my fascination with programming computers would quickly fade.