But I am apparently alone in arguing that computers and information technologies still are the wave of the future; that these technologies currently are "on hold" while the "last mile" is hooked up; and that after every company got its web sites and webmasters, there was a giant pause in the industry as people assess where to go next. This is exactly what the auto industry did from about 1907-1915, when Ford really began slashing costs on per-unit production, and it is also where we were 20 years ago when the chip manufacturers began slashing chip prices that sparked the boom.