Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next e-commerce wave is hurtling down on the Web. It's called the e-market; it's coming soon to an industrial-era sector near you, and Ma may turn out to be its avatar. "Moses' intellect operates on a plane well above mere mortals'," says Joel Friedman, a managing partner at Andersen Consulting, which last month agreed to develop and sell e-market software and services with BizBots. "And we think he might have built a better mousetrap...
Here's the pitch: capitalism thrives on the reduction of friction, and the Web is the most effective friction reducer since the assembly line. The dot-com revolution hit first for consumers; as soon as Amazon, for instance, put millions of discount books within buying reach of anyone with a modem and a credit card, ordinary bookstores had to change or die. "E-markets have had a very significant impact," says Tim Minahan, an e-commerce analyst for the Aberdeen Group. "And you're going to see that on the business side as well...
...having died in October 1985. But the farmhouse is still there, resting on a rise above Blue Hill Bay, and the barn is still attached to it, Maine fashion, and down at the water's edge is the little boathouse where White wrote his children's stories Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, along with the many essays that have entered the canon of American literature: "Once More to the Lake," "Death of a Pig," "The Geese" and half a dozen others...
...couple from South Carolina, Robert and Mary Gallant, who have made their changes with delicacy and taste. White's chicken coop is now an artist's studio, and the woodshed is an open-air sitting room. The animals are gone from the barn where Charlotte wove her web and Wilbur the pig luxuriated in his manure pile, and sometimes the Gallants lay down Persian rugs and hold a cocktail party there, or set out chairs and tables for a meeting of the local garden club, or even, once in a while, arrange bales of hay in a semicircle...
...than ever before, they?re still getting connected at a far slower rate than their white counterparts, with the gap between white and minority households online growing by six percent. "This is a problem not only for the minorities who are missing out, this is a problem for the Web," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor. "This makes the Web a whiter place, makes it country-club instead of cosmopolitan. And that betrays some of the Web?s promise...