In southern Africa, a game park tried to do something good by transporting elephant calves from a preserve where there were too many elephants to one that had too few. The park rangers brought in some full-grown bull elephants who quickly brought the young rogues into line. The bull elephants are showing up on the Internet. Rules of behavior are establishing themselves, and so trust is increasing. We will be following closely the developments that will carry the Internet to the next level not just issues of speed and flashy presentation, but those that will create confidence in the medium.
Commerce requires trust and order.
Customers are ready to give it, even on the Internet. I suspect that some of the big elephants will impose that discipline on some of the young rogues who have had the run of the place until now. They ve put the business plan first, made sure they had enough capital, and have stocked their company with seasoned, results-oriented veterans. No wonder they re doing well. And on a paranoid note even though I ll never achieve the status of Julia Roberts I have registered my own name.