by Carter Henderson

About the author: Carter Henderson is a writer who is completing a book on the impact of the Information Revolution on our daily lives.

“Whether you sell stock or sell suits, the Internet has changed the world,” says Richard A. Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and he couldn’t be more on the money.

Today, there’s scarcely an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the torrent of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. “If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a...