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My idea for today is that established nations could launch startup countries within their own borders, free of all the legacy restrictions in the parent country. The startup country, let's say the size of modern day Israel, would be designed from the ground up for efficiency.

The entire banking system would be automated. There would be no cash in the start-up country. You wouldn't need to "apply" for a loan because the virtual bank would always have a current notion of your credit-worthiness.

The tax code in the startup country would be simplified to the point where residents might forget it exists.

Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.

it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.

NASA attempted something new and revolutionary on March 29 & 30, 2011. The Agency hosted the first ever NASA Open Source Summit.

The diverse community was offered multiple methods to engage in sessions about challenges within NASA’s existing Open Source framework