The organic, geometric growth of the Internet and internetworking is an example of an economic entity exhibiting behavior best described as bionomic. Traditional economic theory leads to constant predictions of impending doom for the Internet and internetworking, while bionomic theory better predicts the ability of networks to evolve rapidly to meet the needs of their users. The Internet as it currently exists is a static environment without a sense of place. Users interact only in online chats through a cluttered, text-based interface, or through electronic mail with the associated delays.
Information is distributed with static pages read by solitary individuals.
At Active Paper, we see the Internet becoming a vehicle for collaboration and community on a global scale. Web pages will become Web places. Users will be able to work together on projects, interact with one another in realtime, and feel as if they're part of the greater community. People will work and play in a giant interactive world. The cost of information has never been lower than it is now.