Z:gnu-www-ja-free-encyclopedia--76e993-The World Wide Web has the pot/en

The World Wide Web has the potential to develop into a universal encyclopedia covering all areas of knowledge, and a complete library of instructional courses. This outcome could happen without any special effort, if no one interferes. But corporations are mobilizing now to direct the future down a different track&mdash;one in which they control and restrict access to learning materials, so as to extract money from people who want to learn.