Narrowcasting replaces
broadcasting, mass customization replaces mass production, a
network of shifting affiliations replaces the rigid owned-
branch system. The decentralized, intrapreneurship-based
corporation is a late response to these trends. The mega-
corporation of the future is more likely to act as a
collective of start-ups than as a homogeneous, uniform (and,
to conspiracy theorists, sinister) juggernaut it once was.
The Territorial Web
By: Sam Vaknin
The Net was supposed to dissolve anachronistic national
borders and cultural boundaries. It was expected to vitiate
distance - both physical and mental. It was hailed as the
invention that will unify Mankind and harmonize (though not
homogenize) civilizations, east and west.
Yet, this was not to be. As dot.coms bombed, their more
veteran and more experienced brick and mortar rivals took over
the Net, transforming it in the process into a giant content
delivery, marketing, supply chain management, and customer
relationship management platform. This evolution all but
demolished the non-local nature of the early Internet.
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