The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.

true innovation is virtually impossible without collaboration. And innovation is indispensable to success. The emerging desktop will include simple, hosted tools that integrate information by activities and feeds, enable ready connections with peers and customers, and provide mobility and accessibility for a range of functions. Non-PC-based forms of communications—especially portable devices such as cell phones—will provide still more ways to connect for pervasive, “anywhere” collaboration

. At the core of this discussion is how 1.0 business models of the 20th century are very much being eroded, transformed, and frequently dethroned by the immense motive forces that lie in the pervasive, open networked systems we have today, which are taking us deeply into a very new place: the 2.0 era.