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been running for a month with nobody to talk to.
2) ________ We prefer factors of 10 in our calendars. The world's first permanent
cybercafé, Cyberia in London's Whitfield Street, opened its doors and keyboards
to the public 10 years ago and was duly celebrated.
But how do you commemorate something as vague as the emergence of e-
business in the UK?
1
3 _______ Does e-mailing my credit card number to a second-hand bookstore in
1993 count, or do we only include secure web-based transactions?
Second, few of us were paying much attention to the needs of future historians
back then. I doubt there is a hand-written log saying "received first website order"
from any of the businesses around at the time.
So we should be grateful that NOP World and e-consultancy are willing to stand
up and claim that it all got started 10 years ago in 1994, and that early October is
the right time to celebrate it.
The exact date may have more to do with local politics, after the party
conferences but before Parliament reassembles, so a good time to get a minister
along for the bash.
4 ________ As it happens the minister could not make it, so net stalwart and
Labour MP Derek Wyatt stepped into the breach with his usual mix of deadpan
humour and self-deprecation.
And after looking back and remembering old times, he ended his talk by imagining
what the online world will look like in another 10 years.
Rather than steal his ideas, I spent the journey home thinking about the question
myself. 5) ____________
2
As the author William Gibson puts it, "the future has already arrived, it's just
unevenly distributed".
When it comes to technology, the stuff that will be in shops and homes in five
years' time has already been invented. And the stuff we will be using in 10 years'
time should be vaguely visible in the labs.
6) _________ They will be embedded in our lives, physically as part of every
object we handle or use, and every machine we build, and socially in the ways we
use them.
Access to the network will just be there, just as electricity and water are there. We
will barely notice it, although we will notice the things we do with it.
7) _________ Both the network and the processing power will also have crept out
of the industrialized West and into the rest of the world.
There is a good chance that by 2014 we will finally have an internet for the next
five billion people, the ones who have probably not even seen a computer never
mind surfing the web.
It will be a regulated, managed and controlled net, not the simple data conduit that
we have today, and many of us will miss the old ways of working. 8) _________
3
The mere fact that everyone is online will change the way the world works, of
course. But the way we use the processing power available will shift too.
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