But, that's all that is about change. E-commerce is going to change it. It will be available initially only to those who have access to computers. But that will change as the market grows. It's going to be service at a key stroke.
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The hole in the wall has grown in less than two decades from a crude punched card terminal to today's all singing and dancing Automated Teller Machine. It barely stretches the imagination to visualise how that will happen with e-commerce. The answer is in the nature of the way e-commerce will interact with manufacturers. The end of mass production Already, mass-production techniques are more flexible than they have ever been. Coalbrookdale, at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum at Telford in Shropshire, where Abraham Darby's coke furnace started the Industrial Revolution, is also a monument to early mass production.