So why did Levi's online venture fail? For a start, the 'legacy' issues of real world commerce are hard to escape. The jeans giant claimed that "the cost of running a truly world class ecommerce business [was] unaffordable".
Both governments also faced similar opposition to ecommerce regulation from their respective business communities - a problem Hewitt claims was ironed out when industry realised the acts were intended to enable business.
But the advent of internet cafés and giving low or no cost entry will build communities, which has real, positive benefits for the physical world. In commerce today we have the opportunity to be part of something amazing.
More recently that money has transmuted to bits, mere numbers in databases that reflect our wealth or potential wealth, but fail to fully define or quantify it. However, our species is on a journey on Spaceship Earth with a mission to go explore...
And he added: "I conclude that we are setting ourselves up to fail. In the emails David Foord, mission critical director of identity and defence at the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) criticised the high costs of the project, the "very serious...
Fenn said cloud computing and SOA will deliver business transformation by "driving deep changes in the role and capabilities of IT", while virtual worlds - such as Second Life - are currently suffering from being over-hyped but, in the long term...