What is the expected future volume of electronic commerce?
There are a number of firms projecting the growth of Internet commerce. Thus far all of them have revised their figures upwards on a regular basis. Current estimates of annual e-commerce volume in five years range from hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars per year. Everyone agrees that electronic commerce will be a major factor in 21st century economics. They also agree that online retail trade is becoming part of the mainstream of American shopping.
