The digital wilderness is littered with canny and idealistic entrepreneurs who are convinced that small, sleek companies can play the Web game and still hang onto good karma. But the great, unanswered question of the Web is just how many little people, in the long run, will be able to support themselves by doing their own thing. Maybe they'll all go down. Maybe it's the HotWireds and Microsofts that have totally missed the point about the postdigital workplace. Maybe, even as the upper management echelons plan their marketing campaigns and leverage their venture capital support, they're on the verge of irrelevance, lumbering dinosaurs doomed to be stung to death by the Web's agile bumblebees.
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