Right now I"m thinking about the Internet, the all-pervasive medium through which I"ve published my thoughts and work I"ve done in my free time for several years now. Like mostly everyone else, I communicate with others using the Internet, play games through it, read news, and learn about things. Except, sadly, I am not convinced the general public is interested in learning. And we are all familiar with the "dot com mania" and the insane rise in the NASDAQ - and, sadly, the subsequent fall of the NASDAQ. People have been wondering exactly what was behind all of this, and...
known "portals" sucked. The page my web browsers go to on load has always been a search engine - which really aren"t bogus, as the Internet is so huge you really do need search engines, and good ones. First I used Lycos, then HotBot. Once each of those started sucking, I switched to a new search engine. Now, I use Google, which unbelievably doesn"t suck, and looks like it will stay that way. These sorts of things have a future. The Internet has a future, and it"s going to be great. The New Economy is still ahead of us.