Trend: Metcalfe's Law

The power of a network grows exponentially as the number of users increases.

  • Over 500 million people connected to the Internet
  • Estimated that there are as many as 500 billion web pages
  • Rapid growth of the World Wide Web heralding in the Communication Age.

Are you online? Do you connect using a dial-up, cable, or DSL modem? Low orbit satellites (Teledesic, Inc.) will be launched that will soon allow for high-speed connectivity to the Internet from anywhere on the planet at anytime.