Gordon Moore believes that his Law will someday hit a wall: "Some time in the next several years we get to some finite limits, but not before we get through five generations" (in Kanellos, 1997). One study has shown that limitations could be reached by 2017. It does seem likely that we can assume growth to continue for several years to come. At current rates, by the time today's first and second graders graduate from high school, they will be using a computer that has 17,000 Megabytes of RAM, a HD of 12,000,000 Megabytes, a CPU speed of 5,500 Megahertz, and at a cost of less than $700. Extrapolating further is even more staggering.

We can hardly even begin to imagine what these computers will do. Metcalfe's Law combined with technology fusion should lead us to believe that we will have an increased reliance on a Global Digital Network, capable of sending and receiving any form of digital communication to and from anywhere in the world at any time. A global economy reliant on these emerging technologies is evidenced by current statistics. Still, we must ask what else is possible?