An excellent opening essay, Jack, and yet another huge WiR issue. Good work.
Your idea of Ultradrive is fascinating, and should the media companies do any long term planning (say 5-10 years) they should be pondering very seriously what they are going to do when gadgets like these become commonplace. "Get ready, the infinite is fast approaching." Yes... call it infinite, technological singularity or whatever... it is approaching real fast, and we will dive into it all together.
- tg