Talk in the salons these days or at least in the blogosphere is of the third industrial revolution; changes to society as fundamental as the development of the steam engine two hundred years ago and of electricity a hundred years later. This time the revolution is being wrought by, you guessed it, the Internet and what politicians like to refer to as the growth of the knowledge-based economy. Changes are being felt in homes and workplaces all over the world changes which are, well,... more