Digital cash may be workable today, and certainly will be tomorrow. Torture this data for even a short time, and it will confess anything. In sum, we are well on our way to a radically different, information based economy. While we can only guess at its ultimate shape, some clues have emerged. The Internet is interesting not only as a massive and pervasive global network but also as an example of something that has evolved with no apparent designer in charge, keeping its shape very much like the formation of a flock of ducks.
Nobody is the boss, and all the pieces are so far scaling admirably.
Most immediately, we need to remove our existing bricks and mortar, paper and boxes paradigm and start thinking in terms of an evolving web of information technology. Electronic mail, for example, is sent to a virtual, not a real, address. You don't know where it's going when you send it. And, at the same time, you can be anywhere when you read it. Olivetti is developing a system that, through a badge, can track where you are in a building, making the nearest phone ring.