“Just over a year ago, America’s biggest, oldest, most prosperous corporations were about to be slaughtered by the dot-com insurgents. Retailers fantasized about trading acres of floor space for a slick Web site. Financial services giants quaked at the arrival of online banks that ‘got it.’ Media executives fretted that online newspapers and Internet broadcasters would arise from the ether to capture their audiences. Consultants everywhere were prophesying doom for the Fortune 500.”