15 years of the World Wide Web

Today, since we are a website, we join in celebrations for the 15  birthday of
　　the World Wide Web!
　　The World Wide Web has changed the lifestyle and working environment of
　　people all over the world. In this programme, we listen to a short interview
　　about how the internet has changed our lives.
　　Ian Pearson is a futurologist - he studies 'futurology'. He's concerned with
　　trying to say correctly what will happen in the future. In the first part of his
　　interview, Ian Pearson lists both good things and bad things about the internet.
　　Can you catch any of these?
　　And he begins by saying that he does not believe the World Wide Web has
　　made our lives completely happy, or blissful. And he uses an unusual
　　expression - using the prefix 'cyber' - to describe the condition of being made
　　extremely happy by the internet! What is this unusual expression? Cyber –
　　what?
　　Ian Pearson
　　'I don't believe in cyber bliss. I think that the future is very much the same as today, where
　　you've got good things and bad things, you know, we've got email but we've got junk mail
　　along side. In the future, we'll have lots of new ways of doing things, but we'll have some
　　misuse as well. It's never going to be Utopia, but, you know, if we get it right, it won't be hell
　　either.'
　　Amber:  Did you catch it? Ian Pearson says he doesn't believe in 'cyber bliss' –
　　'cyber' means 'relating to computers, especially to messages and
　　information on the internet', and 'bliss' means 'perfect happiness' or
　　'enjoyment'. Cyber bliss. And he says the positive things about the internet
　　are 'email' and that in the future 'we'll have lots of new ways of doing
　　things'. However, the negative things are 'junk mail' and future 'misuse' of
　　the internet. When you listen again, notice how Ian Pearson balances his
　　sentences to list 'good things and bad things'.