We've all heard those predictions through the dotcom 90s: Consumers will flock to online stores, more and more persons will shift their consumer habits and glory be to the new new economy. Then the bubble fizzled along with the Y2K crisis and Joe Everyman was cursing the dot-bombs. It was just a trend. Or was it? Fast forward to spring of 2003, and as the world readies for another Gulf War, a quiet revolution continues to shape the culture of information societies. The first sign that made so...(more)