You might have read about the various arguments over the Internet and who should effectively run it - until now it's been the Americans, basically. Recently other countries have started complaining about this, and there's a good summary of the picture in today's Guardian. Essentially, if agreement isn't reached there's a chance that the Net as we know it will become factionalised and its ubiquity - until now its greatest selling point - will disappear.
Personally I can't see that happening, but then 15 years ago I couldn't see the Internet happening at all in its current form (and if you'd told me I'd be using my computer as a music and entertainment station as well as a work tool I'd have had my doubts). It would be ironic, wouldn't it, if the companies that now take the most flak for being the least Internet-savvy friendly were to find that in a world with a diminished World Wide Web they were ahead because their lack of commitment in the first place made it easier to retreat from the e-world.
