June-July-1993 Benefits-of-Commercial-Use-and-Commercialization-of-the-Internet Bill Washburn Exectutive Director of the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). Bill Washburn offers readers a provocative essay on the need for a fully realized commercial Internet. "To some the idea may seem positively excessive. But I predict that the commercial utilization of the Internet will become pervasive and important to some business sectors in the economy. Many companies who have ignored most information technology advances up to now will have to embrace computing simply to incorporate Internet connectivity in their respective workplace environments. That is, Internet communications will be as huge and important to the information revolution in the next year or two as the development of microcomputers and word processing and spreadsheet packages were at the beginning of the eighties."