By the time this article appears in print, the world will be about to enter - or will have just entered - the 21st Century. On January 1, 2001, humanity will still not have fulfilled some of the more flamboyant predictions of the 1960s and 1970s; for example, we won?t all be flying around, Jetsons-style, in transparent-domed cars that emit tiny smoke rings. Nonetheless, we will have wired, fibered and otherwise connected a large portion of planet Earth for high bandwidth telecommunications.
Like all progress, the development and deployment of new communications technologies will bring with it consequences both good and bad. Much money will be made from the Internet "gold rush," and people in all corners of the world will have access to untold intellectual riches.
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