In the past year, the dot-coms cratered. The stock market swan dived. And out-of-work technology gurus headed for...oh no...law school. Technology experts say that while Americans may have tucked away their old Bee Gees albums, the tech revolution has indeed changed the way millions of Americans work, communicate, inform and entertain themselves. The Internet is "not just TV, the same way that an automobile wasn't simply a mechanical horse," she said. While trucks and cars transformed the U.S. economy at the start of the 20th century, online communication has "really changed people's living patterns in a fundamental way" in the late 20th century.