Lots of theories on this one. My favorite is to buy shares of UPS, Federal Express, DHL, and the other major shippers. If e-commerce reaches anything close to the volume predicted by researchers, someone's going to get a big revenue boost on the physical distribution side. The U.S. Postal Service is a player, but my guess is that USPS looks too antique for the twitchy Net buyer. I'm surprised some mutual-fund company hasn't come up with a shipper fund, backed by an index for that market segment.
Music is the least appreciated, yet only truly international language.
I know, MP3 and all the music format variants are trying to improve access but we need to think about how much of our emotional memory is tied to music. Someone's going to harvest megabucks tying music with visual stuff and communications. Think about your family's very own rock concert, with everyone in virtual attendance. We're wasting an opportunity peddling e-books until new display techniques, such as Microsoft's ClearType, can make the pixels on a screen look much closer to print on paper. We might even make a dent in the alarming increase in paper usage which is up 600 percent worldwide since 1950.