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I suggest that we must not be hopeful that governments can find the solution (or afford it if they found one) and that we must look for the solution from within the daily circumstances of people who are suffering from the present worsening situation. Many people are trying to adjust in individual ways, even though welfare payments from governments are declining and impoverishment grows. Others (a minority) are trying, as already mentioned, to form new forms of communities in which they can improve their efforts by mutual exchange of services. If there is to be hope in both cases, I would suggest that they will need many more skills than they have at present. However, as government expenditure retrenches, education is going to become increasingly expensive. For cultural and financial reasons, an increasing number of people are going to be denied any chance of acquiring skills for paid-jobs (as they become increasingly specialised) and for more ordinary daily circumstances (eg carpentry, growing vegetables, saving energy, equipment maintenance, medical care, etc, etc). However, in the Internet we have the potential for a new instructional and informational technology that can offer almost any skill. Considering that the performance/price ratio of the PCs, modems, etc, has increased at least a million-fold in the last 15 years, then, in 15 years' time, the potential for a versatile and sophisticated instructional technology must be phenomenal - even to the poorest among us.