years ago, i was an angry young man
i'd pretend that i was a billboard
standing tall, at the side of the road
i fell in love with a beautiful highway

Sci-Fi author William Gibson, who coined the word "cyberspace," says the World Wide Web "offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that postgeographical meta-country we increasingly call home." Gibson describes the Web as "a procrastinator's dream," which offers the added advantage that "people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working." (New York Times Magazine 7/14/96 p31)