Merit, wherever it arises, will be rewarded as never before. It will afford far more equal opportunity for the billions of humans in parts of the world that never shared fully in the prosperity of industrial society. In the so called 'information society' information has value in its own right mainly because it can be applied to make manufacturing and other physical process more efficient, or make entirely new ones possible.
Most information needs to be applied in the physical world to be valuable.
An example is money, which represents real physical goods and services. This makes ownership of these assets and the record of property rights, including the transfer of title inviolate. The security of the chain of transfer of title to be provided by the Atlantis system is not available under current nation-state legal systems. We expect this technology to be slowly adopted by the nation-states as it is such an attractive technology for users and service providers alike. We are watching the beginnings of a new logical space, an instantaneous electronic everywhereness, which we may all access, enter into, and experience.