When Time-Warner and AOL merged everybody said the media world had changed forever. Turns out they were wrong. In the high flying days of the stock market boom any merger seemed like a good idea. I am willing to bet all the people involved in the TW/AOL merger think it was a big mistake now. What were they thinking anyway? "In the future the Internet will only consist dial-up connections through AOL servers and we can give them Time-Warner content". People move on and sometimes technology does not. I am not saying that AOL will cease to exist, there will always be a place for them in the Internet world, but to believe that they would be a dominant player because they are right now is ludicrous. I predict TW/AOL will eventually become two separate companies again, the writing is on the wall.