Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting

Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting
Thomas Kinkade HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS painting

The Internet isn’t dead — it’s evolving, writes Adam Lashinsky. And how companies, Old and New Economy, position themselves to capitalize on that evolution will speak volumes about who will survive, thrive or disappear.
Nov. 2 — The Internet changes everything. That’s what we were told ad nauseam. Think back one year, when the nation was in the grips of dot-com mania — turning longstanding titans of U.S. industries into ossified fossils, profit-challenged concept stocks into must-own issues, tech-whiz college dropouts into paper zillionaires and “widows and orphans” investors into rapid-fire day-traders. Times have changed. And to pick up on the one platitude from the Internet Age that remains dead-on accurate: They change quickly.