updating are some of the examples. Researchers have generated more evidence and many more and sometimes better examples of the ideas that i presented two decades ago, but the ideas themselves are still surprisingly current and p-to-date If anything this book is now more relevant than it was 20 years ago. When i first wrote this. there was no world wide web. The internet was just barely in service. Simulations were primitive. Computer graphics were rare. Electronic money was unknown. The ideas of virtual life, and decentralized power, and an ecology of machines did not mean anything to anyone, even in America. The stories and logic seemed too abstract and far away. all that has changed now. With the advent of the world wide web, the pervasive net, the realtime web of phones and iPads and PCs, and robot cars that can drive themselves. now the principles i outline in this book seem necessary and important. In fact, in the US14 updating are some of the examples. Researchers have generated more evidence and many more and sometimes better examples of the ideas that I presented two decades ago, but the ideas themselves are still surprisingly current and up-to-date. If anything, this book is now more relevant than it was 20 years ago. When I first wrote this, there was no world wide web. The internet was just barely in service. Simulations were primitive. Computer graphics were rare. ELectronic money was unknown. The ideas of virtual life, and decentralized power, and an ecology of machines did not mean anything to anyone, even in America. The stories and logic seemed too abstract and far away. All that has changed now. With the advent of the world wide web, the pervasive net, the realtime web of phones and iPads and PCs, and robot cars that can drive themselves, now the principles I outline in this book seem necessary and important. In fact, in the US