Nearly all businesses today are critically dependent on the Web for their everyday functioning, so it is important to stay attuned to its continuing evolution, innovation and challenges. In this special report, a variety of noted experts explore a wide range of topics pivotal to the Web’s future, from e-commerce to collaboration tools to some of the Web’s unsettling vulnerabilities.
The next five years will bring great advances in collaborative technology and capacity. Will your company be ready? MIT Sloan’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Harvard’s Andrew McAfee explore what lies ahead.
Given its increasingly integral role in business and society, the Internet’s security flaws are troubling to say the least. Akamai’s Tom Leighton offers analysis and some possible solutions.
With the maturation of online commerce, Internet retailers face some important inflection points in their strategy. Darden’s Timothy Laseter et al. analyze the options.
Views of the Future
Internet pioneers, experts, participants and observers such as Howard Rheingold, Bob Metcalfe and Nick Carr ponder what effect the technology will have on business, culture and society.
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