Downloading massive video files using BitTorrent. Your life story in pictures on Flickr. Everyone’s most memorable videos on YouTube.And for millions, a second ‘avatar’ on Second Life. Web 2.0, the Internet’s Second Coming is already here — and pushing almost every sector of the personal computer-driven business into reinventing itself for a new ‘conne cted’ era.
Naive predictions
Contrary to the naïve predictions of a ‘paperless future’ that technology pundits made a decade ago, the volume of printed documentation has only gone up, year on year — and digitally generated prints may soon form about 10 per cent of over 50 trillion pages that the world’s users churn out every 12 months.
Interestingly, about half of all prints made at home by lay users of printers are downloads from the Internet… which gives the world’s number printer player, Hewlett Packard, a clue to what it should be doing to stay ahead in the business.
Interestingly, about half of all prints made at home by lay users of printers are downloads from the Internet… which gives the world’s number printer player, Hewlett Packard, a clue to what it should be doing to stay ahead in the business.
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