This is an era in which change is not only occurring rapidly but at an accelerated pace.30 Change, particularly change which brings higher and higher levels of online activity, is likely to accelerate the need for mechanisms to resolve disputes. Yet, courts, are an unlikely forum for this to occur.Not only are numbers of trials far fewer than they were a few decades ago31 but judges arerealizing that, as one court stated, “The history of the Internet is a chronicle of innovation by improvisation, from its genesis as a national defense research network, to a medium of academic exchange, to a hacker cyber-subculture, to the commercial engine for the so-called "NewEconomy." Like Heraclitus at the river, we address the Internet aware that courts are ill-suited to fix its flow.”