Forbes.com has a great special report on communication. Most of the stuff is worth a read, but one article that really caught me was on the topic of communication via the internet. Apparently, the web went commercial only 4,000 days ago, when AT&T purchased the first banner ad on HotWired. The rest of the article attempts to predict where we’ll be in another 4,000 days.
Back in 1994, when the Internet was still an academic and military curiosity, few people cared about the network, let alone the communication philosophy behind it. Then the Web went commercial. The shift can be dated to the purchase of the very first banner ad — an ad bought by none other than AT&T on the HotWired Web site.
That was just 4,000 days ago, and in that short time the effects of dirt-cheap communications have bloomed all around us — Google, Amazon, Netflix, Wikipedia. Meanwhile, the once mighty titans of telecom — the AT&Ts, Worldcoms, Lucents and Nortels — have withered. Owning a network is no longer a path to riches, but to penury. #
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