Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

Change the boundaries of business.

There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.