@louis Perhaps one should write that off as the normal course of time, naive hopes and youth eventually make contact with constraints and the indignities of aging. Perhaps I am deluded, but I don’t think that’s the whole story. I think I really did experience a much richer (in a non cashflow sense) internet, and cities much more open and lively and free. I take these experiences as an existence proof, these things are possible. We are just failing to achieve them. /fin