At the 2000 World Congress in Information Technology, in Taipei, then-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina predicted that the new information age would be one "where people can connect anytime, anywhere to useful e-services of all kinds .... Where useful e-services are running on always-on infrastructure and are delivered to information appliances that are pervasive, that are personal, that are simple."
「新網路時代，不管任何時間、任何地點、用任何工具，都可以隨心所欲連結上網。同時，每一項尋常物件都將具有智慧，也將彼此互相連結。」早在 2000 年，前惠普女總裁卡莉・菲奧莉娜來台參加全球資訊高峰會時，就作了這樣的預言。