Dear Sam, this seems right your alley, blog comments are very very welcome, see: it is possible to build an economic system that works like the Internet. Very simple rules of interconnection. Based on these conversations about this, here's a protocol stack that Anthony developed: http://www.miiu.org/wiki/The_economic_stack . see http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Venture ; http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/417/John-Robb-on-War-Peace-and-R...; -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens