The emphasis now is that information must be opened up to the rank and file. Forget all this elitist nonsense about the empowered knowledge workers. Breaking down the barriers That's another relic of the past when the type of people who believed they belonged to some 'internet community' thought they could separate themselves from the hoi polloi. The internet, and particularly intranets, are the way for business intelligence to reach the rank and file in the organisation. When General Packet Radio Service is launched, he promises, wireless handhelds like Blackberry will start to mean real web access on the move.
Business intelligence goes mobile.
That you can understand what he was talking about perhaps proves something about the internet. It no longer has its own secret language, nor an unsustainable set of ideals. The web, after 30 years in the domain of academia and its youthful patrons, has finally left college and gone into business. And about time too. How the downturn changes everything.