Also people have less allegiance to companies and more allegiance to projects. So we can imagine a workplace that is fragmented, less deskbound, and less permament. This will increase stress levels for some, I'm afraid. But it drops in price faster and faster. I think the single thing developing countries can do to increase innovation, technology adoption, and economic development is to deregulate and demonopolize telecommunications in their country.
Nothing has more affect on the arrival of other good things as an open telecom market.
Personally, I think offline companies are disadvantaged when they try to compete head to head against pure Internet companies. It may take a while, but as the Internet insinuates us even more into our lives, I suspect off-line companies will start to see some advantages, too. But right now, the advantage seems to be with the Dot. Com companies because of their flexibility and focus. My own guess is that like in pro sports, what we'll see is steady rising standards of living for all players, while the very top stars or winners reap ever huger rewards.