Every country will be able to tap a multiple of its contribution.
In another, shoppers will be able to tap their phone on the terminal or a kiosk in the store aisle.
And firms will be able to tap into many more data sources in future, as this article will explain.
Within 10 years, Mr. Thompson conjectures, people will be able to tap into a huge, digitized library of old programming that could be downloaded over the broadband Internet.
Buyers of Fire TV will be able to tap into Amazon's video library, which boasts over 200,000 on-demand movies and TV shows.
It is doubtful, however, that these will be able to tap the financial and organisational networks that were available to the LTTE, especially in the Tamil diaspora.
About a billion cellular phones will be in use by 2003, according to several research estimates -- though a much smaller number will be able to tap into the Internet.
The system, under the supervision of Mr. Casperson's Office of Counterterrorism, is scheduled to be computerized before the end of the year, at which point every local police department will be able to tap into a statewide terrorism database.
And Yahoo will be able to tap into records of searches for its own purposes, like monitoring the online behavior of anonymous users to more efficiently place online display advertisements.
Unchecked, large financial firms will be able to tap bond markets for decades to come at rates just above what the government pays, regardless of the inherent risk of their asset positions.
