... other instruments — cars, household appliances, telephones — have done before, because it is equally effective, cheap, and within everybody's reach. The main factors still inhibiting widespread diffusion are security risks — such as problems of transparency and symmetry of information; a need for defence from intrusive technologies; a call for guarantees against threats deriving from fraud, embezzlement, counterfeiting, false identities and privacy. These risks are likely to be scaled down, as the diffusion of the new instruments enlarges the market in such a way as to make lawful behaviour thoroughly prevail — which in turn will make the market itself more reliable. Under such conditions, obstacles and constraints that interfere with market development will not be able to resist its inner pressure, or will turn into discriminations and losses in commercial competition, which is positively unwelcome for the economies involved. It is certainly not by chance that in this matter ...

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