“I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.”
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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.