The Future of the Electronic Marketplace -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Future of the Electronic Marketplace -- Present at the Creation -- Getting Up Closer: Talents and Choices Multiply -- The Once and Future Craftsman Culture -- A Store as Big as the World -- The Ascent of Content -- Reaching through the Screen for Better Services and Goods -- The Digital Utility: Premonitions of the Future of the Last Great Monopoly -- PASHAs: Advanced Intelligent Agents in the Service of Electronic Commerce -- Impalpable Wealth: The Economy Set Free -- Work Remade: An Electronic Marketplace Inside the Corporation -- The Virtual Countinghouse: Finance Transformed by Electronics -- Unseen Guardians, Invisible Treasures -- Getting There: The Tasks and the Visions -- The Walls Coming Down: Interoperability Opens the Electronic City -- Paying Up: Payment Systems for Digital Commerce -- Stars of Good Omen: Satellites in the Global Electronic Marketplace -- About the Authors -- Index.