Where do we go from here?

OWLs present both promises and pitfalls, so how might we continue to think about OWLs? The difficulty in talking about OWLs is not only that the salient aspects of computer technology are difficult to pin down, but also that we all come to the discussion with differing concepts of technology and its implications.

Therefore, I offer some suggestions designed to help us understand how we each think and write about OWLs:

• We need to understand the ways in which one can talk about computers.

• We need to understand our own theories of technology.