| Title | The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 |
| Publication | Wired |
| Date | 1997-07-01 |
| Author | Peter Schwartz & Peter Leyden |
| Page | n/a |
| Source | Wired |
| Clipping id | TOA-INT-1997-004 |
| Permalink | https://technooptimism.org/archive/internet/toa-int-1997-004 |
| Technology | Internet |
| Promise type | Poverty Alleviation; Peace; Economic Prosperity |
| Summary | The passage presents cyberspace as a force that would make money obsolete, reduce the importance of corporations, and diminish the role of governments, replacing existing economic and political institutions with a more direct, networked form of social organization |