(1) People Who are Self-Taught

To explain this better, let's go back to Agrarian Age and Industrial Age, and Transmission of Skills.

In Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from father to son. If you wanted to learn how to be a blacksmith you had to be a blacksmith's son. If you wanted to learn to be a stone-mason, you had to be son of a stone-mason.

With coming of Industrial Age, all this changed. You could go to University and learn whatever skills you wanted. Knowledge was freely available.

But in Information Age, Transmission of Skills is changing once again.

The skills necessary to succeed in Information Age are not being learnt from our parents (as in Agrarian Age), nor are they being learnt in schools and colleges (as in Industrial Age). Children are teaching their parents computer skills. And many of entrepreneurs who start hi-tech Internet companies have never been to college.

The millionaires (and billionaires) of tomorrow probably won't have a college education. They will be high-school drop-outs, self-taught people.

(2) People with New Ideas.

Again, it's people who are able to think outside of existing structures who will become wealthy in Information Age. Often, it's just a Simple Idea that launches people to success in Information Age.

Take Sabhir Bhatia, for example - man who invented Hotmail. Bhatia was a computer engineer working in Silicon Valley. He had no previous business experience, whatsoever.

But one day, while he was driving back from work, a friend called him on his cell phone and said that he had an idea: What about starting a free, web-based email service? Bhatia knew this was idea he'd been waiting for. He told his friend to hang up immediately and ring him at home on a secure line.

Three years later he sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million.

(3) Writers

The third group who will become wealthy in Information Age are Writers.

In Industrial Age, Writers depended on large publishing Houses to get published (remember that printing press is an Industrial Age technology - it is centralized and controlled). And Publishing Houses took lion's share of profits.

In Information Age, Writers are doing their own publishing - and keeping most of profits themselves. Indeed, Writers are flourishing on Web - mainly through eBooks and Ezine Articles. But even if you don't write eBooks or Ezine Articles, if you own a website, you are a Writer.

Why?

Because Internet is basically a written medium. It favors writers, people who are able to communicate effectively through written word. Remember, it's not graphics on your website that sell, it's words you use.

In Information Age, we're all Writers!

We give due respect to big boys because they really have impressive websites. They can afford to hire a $300.00 an hour Webmaster and a platoon of assistants to make them a small slick button.

As I said earlier, size doesn’t matter in Internet. In fact, come to think of it, being small has its advantages. If you were working alone, all decisions are yours. You make changes, you make your own design, you quote your own prices, you decide on everything—good or no good.

If you were working with your wife, you may have to disagree on some points but it is easier to make a decision. You don’t need glamorous “bull” sessions or so much brainstorming. As new ideas pump in, all you need is implement it. Try it. If it doesn’t work, kill it. Simple.

In Internet, being big in real world does not directly result to profitability and financial success. In fact, most of major dot.coms are so deep in red. A small obscure dot.com who provides product or service to his targeted market and who knows how to promote and market his/her website to this gigantic web world has all chances equal to well-oiled corporations.

Simply said, in Internet, we can be as BIG as anyone else. That is of course, when you know how.