Lily pads double in size every day. Unstopped, they one day cover the entire pond, although just the day before they were only halfway there. The Network Economy is a lily pond. The Web, as one example, is a leaf doubling in size every six months. What's interesting about an ecology is that every successful species that comes along creates room for other species to develop.
Every successful invention is followed by two or three more.
For every successful company, two or three others can be started in its shadow. There is a shift in business from efficiencies to opportunities. There is a competitive advantage to imperfectly seizing the unknown rather than perfecting the known. A lot of people think the future is a world where technology takes over and dehumanizes people. In fact, this technology is about increasing the strength of humans.