Chapter 2. Evolution to e-Enterprise

 

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . . This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

 
 --Issac AsimovAsimov on Science Fiction[1]

Isaac Asimov was correct in saying that we must not only consider the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This is especially applicable to the Internet age. The Internet bubble has popped. Dotcom stock has become the proverbial swampland in Florida, as in “If you believe that, I've got some dotcom stock to ...

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