The instant, infinite internet — whose working title is the "evernet" — will eliminate many of the internet's biggest turn-offs at a stroke, rendering once-grainy movies at cinema quality and music to rival the sounds of a concert hall.

The current system will eventually turn into the "Evernet"—available to us anytime, anywhere (through wireless connections), and capable of offering instant transmission of material from any one point in the world to another.

This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium — overconnectedness. This is the real Y2K virus for developed countries. It is the anxiety that is going to be produced when telecommunications combines with the "Evernet" — the technology that will soon allow people to get on line from their watches, their cars, their toasters or their Walkmans — so that everyone will be able to be connected all the time, everywhere.