10 Years That Changed the World – The cover story of the August issue of Wired that chronicles the growth of the internet in the last ten years. An excellent read which shows why trying to predict anything about this phenomenon is so futile. One thing which stood out for me were the excesses of the boom days. For example, a company spent $10 million on a celebration, having raised venture capital about twice that amount. Not surprisingly they went bust pretty soon. Also, Yahoo! bought broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Today, they redirect it to yahoo.com. Ouch!