It's an Internet World

摘要

Welcome to the Internet Century. Or at least so go early pronouncements in the future-forecasting business. Far too early to even hazard such a proclamation? Maybe. But perhaps nothing speaks more cogently to the overriding influence of the Internet at the dawn of this new millennium than the fact that you cannot begin to divine the future in any area—communications, medicine, commerce, entertainment, and so on—without accounting for the role the Internet will play in each.