We can sell technology and tools. We can arrange for the quick flow of ideas over the net. It can't be controlled. There will never be an Agenda type conference that concentrates the power of the Internet in one place, because while that's happening a group of young people with no acknowledged stake in the future will be plotting the overthrow of the people who are posturing as the leaders of the net. And their ideas will work.
Computers are a powerful medium.
It doesn't take much money to make a net phenomenon. It'll be even more that way in the future. Today's Net may look like a vast wasteland of self-important and tasteless and soulless commercialism, but I'm optimistic. I think we're in a quiet period. Think about bandwidth and define it broadly.