Now, access to financial information and trading capabilities can be as close as that interactive wireless device in many of your jacket pockets. How times have changed. Today, online trades cost about the same to make as a long distance call to grandma once did. It's another example of how the receivers of information, and not the providers, are in the driver's seat. You can pull the information you want, when you want it, from wherever you happen to be.
Technology is a great enabler of commerce.
It's a wonderful time for bold, creative and visionary thinking. He became Time's Person of the Year in l999. And all because he envisioned and executed an online marketplace to sell books, CD's, and a growing line of consumer goods. So far, the glories of pioneering Internet commerce models have gone to the people who have dared to recreate traditional business in non-traditional ways. We see it every day.