"Everything — including physical products, once nanotechnology-based manufacturing becomes a reality [around 2025]— is becoming information."
-Kurzweil

"That got me to wondering: would foes of the concept of intellectual property start to demand the the 'chair' information, or the car design information, or the chip-design information or the unique finger-triggered navigation system on the iPod information (which is protected by patents), be as free and unencumbered as the software, music, and video information the 'ownership' of which they consider wrong?"

http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1530

Mining asteroids around 2025...