We live in an economic world in which information 
itself has become the main commodity. Packages 
and consumer goods are now a relatively minor 
commodity compared to just information. [Where 
does this information output, the fact that 
information is so readily available, where does that 
put the traditional family situation, for instance?] It 
means for one thing, for example, that the 
computer could become the basis of a cottage 
economy again. Just as the kids have gone back to 
the Middle Ages in their costumes and social 
outlook, role-playing, so our economy could go back 
to the cottage economy of a much earlier time. You 
could run the world’s biggest factory in a kitchen by