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The Internet provides an all-encompassing vehicle to connect us to the information and things we want. Browse for your desires through millions of pages of shopping, communications Womens Takkarist McKinley Jersey , entertainment, and business opportunities. Unfortunately, consumers are parked at the tail end of the Internet's evolution and as these users arrive at any given website Womens Calvin Ridley Jersey , a fierce battle to manipulate their purchasing habits is being pursued. The battle has barely begun.


The argument that the Internet is a fad or that it will never replace traditional commerce is redundant. It already has. Any invention that has the capacity to accelerate the delivery of products and services into the marketplace changes the economic and cultural landscape. The Industrial Revolution did it. The telephone did it. The automobile did it. The Internet will do it too. And because each technology builds on the momentum of its predecessor, the rate of acceleration intensifies. It is this intensification that many people find so disconcerting.


The Internet breeds new business processes in the same manner that the automobile gave birth to suburbia, shopping malls and salvage yards. Like parents fawning over their newborn infant Womens Julio Jones Jersey , few inventors are able to envision the long-term consequences of their creations. Pioneering inventions, like human development, bring challenges and opportunities along their way to maturity. It is always risky to assume a rigid outcome. The Internet is still in its infancy?its formative years?and it's during this phase that the greatest influence can be exerted.


The Internet has both the power to create or destroy economic communities. The present momentum is focused on centralizing economic activity Womens Deion Sanders Jersey , in other words, building colossal portals that will attract consumer activity away from traditional Main Street retailers to these centralized hubs. is the foremost example of this trend. While use of this technology is a natural process of business evolution, the consequences on local economies are enormous.


Economic activity Qadree Ollison Jersey , whether rural, urban or national, is the organizing backbone of our community structure. Removing or reorganizing a community's economic activity has a consequential impact on the community's well being. Historic examples abound from the microeconomics of a town built on the gold rush fever to the macroeconomics of communism. In both extremes John Cominsky Jersey , external forces created internal disintegration.


The organizing efficiency and cost effectiveness of the Internet economy will have an incomprehensible impact on both the local and global economy. And because the circulation of money is a primary activity of our society, it is essential that we actively participate in how and where that money flows. So while the momentum of Internet technology may deter intelligent participation, by not participating we relinquish our responsibility to direct its flow into the hands of a few willing advocates.


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