Living on the Web: Digital Life and Death in the Early 21st Century

by Stephen J. Andriole

Quite simply, the Web has a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. It will continue to do so, becoming the dominant platform for everything from communication to business transaction processing. Within a decade, the personal/professional merger will be complete with virtually no distinctions between what we do to live and what we do to work. In this Executive Report, I predict that significant aspects of our lives will move to the Web, be managed by Web-based providers, and support an agility and mobility that we’re unable to define or fully appreciate today. This means that everyone will become immersed within, and dependent upon, the Web. I also explore the notion that moving to the Web has benefits that extend beyond this agility and mobility and is likely to change the way we all think about a wide range of activities.