It's the year 2000, and the Internet "is making the world a very different place for us," says Canadian Internet expert Jim Carroll. In this January 23, 2000 episode of Mansbridge One on One, Peter Mansbridge interviews Carroll about the past, present and future of the net. The typically optimistic Carroll does express a few fears. He worries the current Internet business boom could soon crash in a big way. "There's something massive going on here, but it doesn't mean we need to throw out our collective sanity." View the interview at CBC Digital Archives. Also read about current perspectives in Jim Carroll's regular column in CAmagazine online.