Will we butt up against the Web’s limitations?

For thousands of years, trade routes were considered important to the regional sustainability of every civilization. Those trade routes are now electronic.

Most people don’t equate network infrastructure with the rest of the layers of critical infrastructure that have been recognized throughout centuries as necessary for global commerce. They should. The need to understand how maximizing electronic trade routes is critical to maximizing the economic viability of a region.

To put it in a historical perspective, the chart below gives an overall view of commerce and the layers of critical infrastructure that supported its growth and expansion. While space has yet to be conquered from a realistic commerce perspective, we might as well add it into the framework because it will certainly play some role in the next century. For this discussion, we will focus on the broadband connectivity level.

James Carlini

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