Internet: Virgin Territory
My mother had foresight.
She had the two of us enroll at a computer school at a nondescript building, with an area not exceeding 40 square meters. I forgot where it was located, but I remember we had to look over the shoulder of the teacher and we had to share a computer, tinkering with DOS and binary numbers and floppy discs together. We were no longer mother and child, but two people trying to ride with the times. I am not sure if I (or she) learned anything. I know that back at home I continued to type my thesis with an electric typewriter.
Not that it mattered. What we had learned would be relegated to the annals of computer history, because in a few years, mankind was to take several quantum leaps into the information age.
In his book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century”, Thomas L. Friedman catalogued the shift of the philosophy of the world – from working hard, man had to work smart. He said, “… One way small companies flourish in the flat world is by learning to act really big. And the key to being small and acting big is being quick to take advantage of all the new tools for collaboration to reach farther, faster, wider, and deeper.”
From the computer came the Internet. And the internet is the new frontier where this is possible.