Bubble? What bubble?
There are a great pair of articles in the most recent
Economist magazine:
The dotcoms come of age and
A perfect market. They describe the
incredible current success of the internet. Here's a brief quote:
BACK in 1999, at the height of the internet frenzy, Forrester, a
research company, forecast that online retail sales in America
could reach $100 billion by 2002. When the bubble burst a year
later, lots of crazy predictions went the same way as many dotcom
firms. But if online sales of cars, food and travel are added to
the official figures, then Forrester's forecast, which once
looked so wild, has turned out to be only about a year late. The
growth continues. The 200m Americans who now have web access are
likely to spend more than $120 billion online this year. And that
is only part of the story. E-commerce has not only grown into a
huge thing in its own right, it has done so in a way that will
change every kind of business, offline as well as online, as our
survey explains.
