Results can be uploaded to your computer and emailed to friends around the world. It is possible to do a virtual race with competitors all around the world, each racing on his or her own track in their own time zone. One more trend in the wired world category would be file sharing. The real revolution that Napster started was not stealing music. Imagine a network that does not depend on servers, but each computer on the network becomes its own server.
Amazing things can happen from that.
People in every demographic category are becoming increasingly wired. At the rate our customers are getting wired, we need to move fast to beat them to the punch. If customers are accessing the internet for business, we have got to be there too. The preferred method for transmitting data over long distances is with light photons transmitted over fiber-optic lines. These lines carry data at rates of gigabits per second.