In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush was beginning his first term as president, gasoline was $1.45 per gallon and we were playing with Gameboys while preparing to fit our personal music collections on an even smaller hand-held device. Between the dawn of a new millennium, huge technological advances and world-rocking events, change came hard and fast that year and the two decades since. Even economic visionaries would have been hard pressed to imagine the warp speed at which commerce as we knew it would evolve.
