Dan Gillmor: Technology creates threat to economy General IP Issues6/12/2000; 8:08:20 AM "`If we can't figure out how musicians and movie creators can make money in an era of widespread, unlimited copying, how will we prevent our entire economic system from collapsing when there's molecular manufacturing and even physical objects can be copied cheaply and widely?' says John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation."It pays to remember the endgame."The potential exists, then, for a world where the blueprints for everything -- maybe including your descendants -- are owned by other people. In that world, it will be illegal to own a molecular assembler, because it might be used to make physical goods based on a patented design for which you haven't paid. That's an extreme notion, but it's not as far-fetched as it sounds if current legal trends continue."