>The legal, political, and policy ramifications are important. They tend to frame how things will go. I think there is an extreme ignorance on the part of many in policy making roles as far as technology is concerned. That is one of the reasons I decided to go to Law School. The next 30-40 years are going to be very interesting...

At what point do you foresee yourself running for office and have you decided which ultimate office that will be? :-)