Servers will merge to form hyper-servers run on supercomputers. The number of ISPs will be considerably diminished. 50 companies ruled the greater part of the media markets in the USA in 1983. The number in 1995 was 18. At the end of the century they will number 6.
Shallow programming dominates as long as the bloodbath proceeds.
But one thing is fast becoming clear. The added benefits of IT are highly sensitive to and dependent upon historical, psychosocial and economic parameters outside the perimeter of the technology itself. The CEE countries better take note.