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.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.