ABSTRACT
Predicting the future is risky even under the best of circumstances, but patently impossible when it comes to the future of technology, particularly when those predictions must take into account not only the rapid growth of the Internet but also the exponential increases in computing power and speed. And when all the new paraphernalia that will be affected by these ever increasing advances in chip design also is taken into account—wireless personal computers, Web sites, interactive cell phones, smart clothing, global positioning satellites, virtual reality, and online games galore—and then multiplied by some unimaginable nanotechnology-driven growth in capacity and speed all its own, the future of the Web, and of music on the Web, appears to be unlimited, and certainly not to be comprehended, imagined, or accurately predicted very many years in advance.
