Such great ideas, both in this article and here in the comments, yet, none of these ideas will bear fruit. Why? Partly due to the fact that the people like Marc Andreessen and others here in this thread that you can clearly see are very capable of thinking through and helping solve some of the issues touched on in Marc’s article don’t run for office. Instead you have glass eyed Attorneys and puppets on both the right and left side in office. I’m embarrassed often while watching our federal and state leaders talk. I’m watching in utter disbelief, wondering how so many of these people got elected... we voted for them. It’s our fault. If we really want change we need to start with the people running the country, all of them and the system in which it allows politicians to be elected (selected) based on the amount of money they’ve accumulated.