Having learnt your preferences, it'll prompt the stereo to fire up a great CD on your arrival home from work. Rather than university research labs or giant computer companies, it is grassroots adoption by teenage Internet users that has pushed the renegade technology along. As Napster faced the wrath of a music industry that didn't take kindly to a Web site facilitating 32 million Internet users swapping digital song files, clandestine networks that no longer relied on a meeting place were breaking out across the Web. The mojo pays for downloads. Thousands of tree huggers, S11 and Olympic protesters took their views online in 2000, posting stories about events and horse tramplings.
Gadgets are everywhere, but it's how people use technology that changes lives.
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