How do we capture the essence of the transformational power of e-knowledge? The digital technologies pose a mountainous challenge to all of us trying to e x p l o re the possible futures they offer. They combine a new medium with a new d e l i ve ry system, and each multiplies the effect of the other. The adaptive computer is as re vo l u t i o n a ry a way of supp o rting the way we think and learn as was the invention of writing.