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To: Puck who wrote (92)	9/10/2001 10:14:18 AM
From: Dan Hamilton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 787

I agree completely. The potential is huge. Here's a snip on a Forbes ASAP piece talking about e-commerce. A good article, well worth a read... forbes.com Online Transactions The Internet, because of its odd birth, has always had a strange, paranoid view of commerce--half PBS, half late night on a carnival midway. We are willing to pay for goods on the Web, even for the assistance of a handful of guides. But every other service we expect to get free, or at least underwritten by giant corporations. Thus, we'll buy a used Plymouth online, even pay Yahoo to help us find it. But we won't pay for the best article ever written about buying old Plymouths. Just ask Slate or Salon.com or Inside.com. That's for the mainstream. For the edgier stuff--pharmaceuticals, gossip, fan sites, porn--we want a peek at what we're buying first, and then the chance to make our purchase behind the tent, where the cops (and the neighbors) aren't watching. Here, too, the solutions are coming fast. They take as many forms as there are creators. Encryption, that favorite activity of out-of-work Russian programmers and ex-spooks, is reaching the mainstream with the dream (and nightmare to governments everywhere) of almost perfectly private peer-to-peer transactions. At the same time, numerous companies, including CheckFree, First Data, and Visa International, are rushing to establish relationships with banks and governments worldwide to enable secure online cash transfers, from pennies to billions of dollars anywhere on the planet. The number of secure online transactions in the business-to-consumer (B2C) market is expected to reach 64 million by 2004, moving a total of $75 billion.