FINANCES & HOME BUSINESS: Digital Family Wealth

Whatever is the most current always becomes society's currency. Today, what is most current is the flow of digital information. Now, money is purely digital - information on the move. Electronic blips, representing trillions of dollars, flow daily through electronic networks as easily as a coin drops into a parking meter. Today, any "with it" financial service firm already digitally delivers to you a real-time, personalized "money dashboard" that constantly updates your entire financial situation in a single window on your PC screen.

WebPhones will replace everything we now carry in our wallets or purses. Everything ... well, except lipstick! No more coins, bills, checks, wads of credit cards, driving license, social security and health cards, passport, family photos, appointment book, or business cards to clutter your life. Just a handy-dandy, wireless, digital, multimedia appliance that safeguards all your personal papers. It will even keep track of your financial affairs and automatically file your tax returns.

The wealth created by the Web will far surpass that of the last several generations of commerce. And it will happen faster than before.

Home-based business drove the economy long before the first Industrial-era company came along. And so it will again in the Internet era. To achieve truly-independent financial freedom for themselves, their children and their grandchildren, futuristic families will use the Web to start an online family business and become legally-incorporated enterprises. (See Home-Based Business section)