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I tend to agree with Douglas Rushkoff & his assertion that e-commerce should be banned. The net as we know it -- to give a fastfood analysis -- is built on the hard work of (in many cases) idealists, programmers contributing to freeware/shareware/etceterate projects that have made B2B, C2C, etc. possible. Although the stories of many of the companies jumping the bandwagon en route to a relatively short-lived e-goldrush have ended @ Chapter 11, extensive damage has been done. All the wrong people (or MANY of the wrong people) ended up becoming dot-com wealthy while tons of programmers, what have you, were left out. In the meantime, we've cheapened a truly amazing thing -- what has become the Internet -- with high-powered PR hype & left the much of the REAL potential of IT along the roadside like so much trash littered about no littering signs! Journalists have often done little to assist, in many cases just rewriting the press releases -- hype, et al.
What's the future of e-commerce? Let us hope there isn't much of one. What do you think?
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THANKS.
I am a chinese, poor Eng.
I think the e-biz will develop between undeveloped and developed countrys!
The undeveloped country is easy to get information only but can not get the service!
This is the thing that e-biz will do!
我是一个中国, 差的 England 英国。
我认为 e 做得好将在 undevelop 之间开发
并且 develeped cuntrys ！
不发达的 cuntry 是容易的仅仅得到信息但是不能得到服务！这是 e 做得好将做的事情！
Way off base! The efficencies of eCommerce will fuel it's future global growth. Yesterday's forecast of 15% of worlds planet being online in 2005 is indicative of this. The ease, convenience, breadth of information, and instant feedback features of the Internet and eCommerce have fundamentally changed how business will be conducted. It took radio 32 years to reach 50 million US households, TV 13 years, the PC 10 years and the Internet less than five years.
frank leibold
http://home.att.net/~f.leibold/
Christ, Frank. SELLing versus the free & open ability to disseminate information are not even on the same plane. Is that all the Internet means???
Sounds like sour grapes to me. What do you mean the wrong people became wealthy.
No one has the right to determine what groups are entitled to wealth, we are all entitled.
The bigger question is how do we become wealthy.
Sour grapes? I'm doing fine, thank you. Tim Berners-Lee had the right idea, but a lot of mediocre people -- who would've failed in other areas anyway -- rushed in & f*@!ed things up. Sour grapes, Mr. big question?
Absolutely sour grapes. All you have done is cried that people were able to leverage the net to become wealthy.
What difference does it make to you if people become wealthy. It shouldn't mean a thing, unless you are jealous.
Anyway, some were lucky and some were smart, either way they made $$$$$$$$$
2 things (at least) are totally off base with your theory.
1. Programmers are in demand more than ever before now that the Web has a business model.
2. While fly-by-night dot-coms have been going belly-up, Internet sales have been increasing as buying goods over the Internet is now mainstream.
The only change is that now a vendor needs to have a solid business model to succeed.
Internet sales are alive and well. It's just companies with poor business plans that are failing.
OK. I'll agree w/ the companies w/ poor biz plans point (see my Fellini Mugs reply, Contra).
But ultimately, what's your point?
Incidentally, are you a programmer?
Ultimately, my point is that you're wrong.
That e-commerce is alive and well and should remain and be encouraged for the benefit of business, of programmers and other IT professionals, and of sharing information.
A "ban" as you suggest would be very bad policy, apart from being impossible.
And, nope, I'm not a programmer.
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