Part 5

Putting the clues together

Part five is the equivalent of the final drawing room scene in detective stories, where the detective puts all the clues together. In this mystery the murder victims have been money and time: wasted on futile attempts to apply Industrial Age thinking to e-business and e-commerce solutions in the Information Age.

The conclusion is not in the form of a set of instruction that can be written down in a bullet point list. It is mental model that can be used to see the Internet for what it is: a massive connectivity that can be tapped into to vastly increase individual efficiency, power and wealth.