Bridging the offline and online worlds

'We are facing the most challenging revolution since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 or maybe even since the French Revolution in 1789. And this revolution is the worldwide web.

A new world has been created, an online one. The challenge will not be whether we need to accept this new online world, but how we will organize it and how we will be successful in integrating this new online world in our daily lives in the offline world.

We will need architects shaping and constructing this new online world, architects bridging the offline and online worlds, so we all can take advantage of this exciting new online world.'

Quote of a software programmer, 2001 (name unknown - free translation)