Resumen
The article presents a vision of future computer-mediated economy. According to the author most market transactions in the future will also be mediated by specialists, most likely in the form of computerized agents. According to the author extraterrestrials would be discovered in the next 1,000 years, thus opening up the possibility of interstellar trade, probably limited to trade in information. Another possibility is new intelligent life-forms on Earth based on electronic or biological forms. The new forms may have radically different motivations. Technology has magnified the power of individuals, a small number of unbalanced individuals will be immensely powerful, threatening the existence of human life on the Earth. Bill Joy, chief scientist of Sun Microsystems Inc., has also warned about threat to human life on the Earth, due to advances in nanotechnology and small numbers of unbalanced individuals becoming more powerful