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  • Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

    "The Economy of Ideas" by John Perry Barlow, www.wired.com. March 01, 1994.