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That is because networks are great levelers. They dissolve barriers to entry the neutralized traditional assets like physical stores and branches. Networks dissolved the boundaries within and between companies, countries, continents and time-zones. It is not hyperbole to say that the network is quickly emerging as the largest, most dynamic, restless, sleepless marketplace of good services and ideas the world has ever seen. And naturally this comes with very profound applications. For one thing, they are all ready, time-honored processes that govern the way things work in the world, the way we buy and sell, the way we distribute things, the way we teach, and the way we interact with each other. That I will tell you that nearly every one of those conventions is being challenged by the network world.
網絡是偉大的平均主義者。網絡消解了所有進入那些受壓制的傳統產業 -- 比如實際的商店和分店 -- 的障礙。網絡消解了各個企業、各個國家、各個大陸和時區內部以及它們之間的界限。可以毫不夸張的說，網絡正在迅速成為一個前所未有的最大、最為活躍、從不平靜和從不休息的業務和思想的市場。自然這也將帶來一些意義深遠的應用。一件值得注意的事兒是，這些障礙都是歷史悠久的、早有準備的部門，它們統治著信息世界運轉的方式 -- 買賣的方式、分銷的方式、教育的方式以及我們互相交往的方式。我得說幾乎傳統觀念中的每一方面都在受到網絡世界的挑戰。
Let me cite a few examples drawing on what we and IBM have learned from helping thousands of customers in the last year come to the Net. New competitors can come out of nowhere, overnight, and not just from within your industry. One of the most contentious, fast moving, and bare knocle battles waged today is, believe it or not, in book selling.
下面讓我舉幾個例子，幾個過去一年中我們 IBM 在幫助成千上萬的消費者走上網絡時得到的例子。新的競爭者將會無時無刻無所不在，而不僅僅是來自你自己的產業界。今天爭吵得最利害、行動最為迅速的競爭 -- 信不信由你 -- 是在書籍銷售領域。
