Stivison--E-commerce Has Arrived

But GM—the heavy steel, huge factory and honest-to-goodness tangible antithesis of the cyber company—recently announced in The Wall Street Journal that it expects to do more than $85 billion of commerce via the internet in 2001. That's real commerce for actual goods and services, not stock speculation. It is $85 billion worth of tangible steel, tires and printing. The orders might have been placed and billed in cyberspace, but the products are tangible and the dollars are very, very real.