Looking ahead ...

... Beyond Blue Part Three: The Power of Infostructure | Via Meadia. (Hat tip, Vikram Johri.)

In all societies vested interests will resist efforts to reduce friction. The mule drivers didn’t like the canals and the canals hated the railroads. Pettifogging lawyers will hate the transformation of their profession, and every vested interest in the country will be touched one way or another by the kinds of transformations of our core social institutions that will take place as we build out the infostructure of the 21st century.