Business Consequences

• Most US business depends on the Internet

  • Movement of capitol to e-commerce
  • Movement of sales volume to e-commerce
  • Taxes paid over the Internet
  • Phones moving to the Internet
  • Email far overshadows physical mail
  • Legal contracts via e-signatures
  • Information is the lifeblood of the economy
  • Information in IT far exceeds physical assets
  • Even manufacturing is heavily IT-dependent

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