By Amy Hatch, Editor, The Future of Commerce
When I was a freshman in college, way back before the Internet was born, I sat in an auditorium with 300 other 18-year-olds and first heard the theory of the global village.
Soon, our professor predicted, we would be interconnected in ways we couldn’t yet anticipate, but the end result would be a society in which information itself became a commodity. I remember looking at my neighbor and raising my eyebrows, a smirk on my face, and....