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Taxes Will Eventually Become A Voluntary Process, With The Possible Exception Of Real Estate - The One Physical Thing That Does Not Move Easily And Has Computable Value. The Us Has A Jump-start On The Practice, In That 65 Percent Of Local School Funds Come From Real Estate Taxes - A Practice Europeans Consider Odd And Ill Advised. But Wait Until That's All There Is Left To Tax, When The Rest Of The Things We Buy And Sell Come From Everywhere, Anywhere, And Nowhere.

Google Has A Very Powerful And New Advertising Model That, For Them, Prints Money.

But Just As Elevators Have Changed The Shape Of Buildings And Cars Have Changed The Shape Of Cities, Bits Will Change The Shape Of Organizations, Be They Companies, Nations, Or Social Structures.

Giving The Kids A Programming Environment Of Any Sort, Whether It's A Tool Like Squeak Or Scratch Or Logo To Write Programs In A Childish Way - And I Mean That In The Most Generous Sense Of The Word, That Is, Playing With And Building Things - Is One Of The Best Ways To Learn.

The Notion Of Collective Contribution, Like The Wikipedia, Is A Very Powerful One.