Another way that government can support electronic commerce is by clearing up the tangle of federal and state laws and regulations that inhibit the use of new technology like digital signatures. The Internet is not a priority for the Bush administration like education, defense, or a tax cut, but it will support to support B2B electronic commerce on a number of important issues. In addition the Bush administration is likely to increase funding for technology as part of its education initiative. Digitizing all of these bits of information and serving them via high-speed broadband networks is revolutionizing the information world. DVD is perhaps the purest example of converging technology since it can be displayed on both computer monitors and television sets.
Wearable computers are no longer the subject of jokes.
The boundaries are blurring between different types of companies involved in the new media. The new media is richer in depth than the old media but harder to get a handle on. One of the innovations on the Web is the shopping agent or shopbots. Amazon's Zbubbles, Excite's Productfinder, and MySimon enable consumers to compare prices for thousands of products and hundreds of merchants. When ATM cards first appeared, consumers were a bit reluctant to use them.