Three Trends for 2005, Forbes, 31 Jan 2005

“Big trends have a way of sneaking past us. Consider the Web. In 2005 it may seem like an old story, but let's pause to remember that as a commercial product the World Wide Web is just a mere decade old. (And if you lay claim to having surfed the Web during its beta years of 1990-94, either you're an HTML geek or you're fibbing.) In just ten years the Web has altered the way we grab information, manage our firms and organize our lives. China likely will surpass the U.S. this year in the number of Web surfers, a development few saw in 1995. Still, the day is young! The Web in 2005 is like the airplane in 1913 or the television in 1954, when Edward R. Murrow fricasseed a sweating Senator Joe McCarthy before the cameras. (In 2004 bloggers gang-tackled Dan Rather.)�

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