Perhaps the number of artists who use crowdfunding to connect with a thousand true fans, as Kevin Kelly envisioned, will grow as fund-raising technology — and the culture surrounding it — matures.
Mr. Rubin, whose company is considering expanding into investment-style crowdfunding once the new rules are completed, says he fears that regulations will be so complex that crowdfunding — at least as envisioned — "will be too burdensome to execute".
Owners of digital radio receivers that are envisioned will also be able to set them to record, edit and replay programming, just as owners of technologies like TiVo do today with television.
Like in the 1800s, technology will result in the decline in certain types of jobs, but new positions that we haven't even envisioned will give people an opportunity to fill in the gaps that machines can't — seeing the big picture, thinking creatively and connecting seemingly disconnected ideas.
However, there is reason to fear that Mexico's CNA, as currently envisioned, will struggle to replicate this success.
The high and impregnable wall separating church from state that Thomas Jefferson and Justice Black envisioned will almost certainly remain the porous structure that it has seemingly always been.
