Cometh The Hour, Cometh The (Imminent) European Internet

Revolution, what revolution?

"The Internet has revolutionised the everyday lives of Europeans in a way comparable to the industrial revolutions of the previous centuries. Electronic commerce and online services in the broader sense are now at the heart of lives of consumers, businesses (from the largest to the smallest) and citizens in general. The way they compare, purchase and sell goods and services, the way they search for information or make it available, the way they manage their payments and their data, the way they learn and train, the way they interact, exchange and share is not the same as it was five, let alone ten or twenty years ago."

(Opening paragraph of the Commission Communication on coherent framework for building trust in Digital Single Market for e-commerce and online services ("Communication") published on 11 January 2012)