16 years ago the world’s great electronics companies, like today, didn’t know what to do. So they huddled. Sony, Matsushita, AT&T , Motorola, Philips, Cable & Wireless, Northern Telecom, Toshiba, France Telecom, NTT, Oki, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu all got together to form a company to invent the future. What could go wrong? It worked on …