| Hewlett-Packard chairman, president and CEO Carly Fiorina described a dynamic vision of an always-on Internet infrastructure focused on providing services.
During her opening keynote at NetWorld+Interop Atlanta 2000, Fiorina described several shifts she sees in the technology landscape to about 1,700 N+I attendees at the Georgia World Congress Center.
The Internet is undergoing a key shift from a do-it-yourself to do-it-for-me environment, she said.
“E-commerce was about interacting and transacting with customers more efficiently,” Fiorina said.
“E-business is more about making the back end more efficient. Now, customers want something bigger and more universal. Technology is no longer a supporting player, but it is actually a driving force behind business. We are entering a different phase, a renaissance in the information age.”
She predicted several upcoming trends, among them a shift to service-based computing.
In the shift to service-based computing, “network devices can be brought together, connected, harnessed to solve problems, and then disconnected when no longer required,” she said. | 
