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But in the end, it is our ability to unify all of the elements of the information society &mdash; software, hardware, and bandwidth &mdash; in shared hands, that is in our own hands, that determines whether we can succeed in carrying out the great 18th century dream, the one that is found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, the one that says that human beings and human society are infinitely improvable if only we take the necessary steps to set the mind free. That's where we are really going. Mr. McBride's company's fate, whether it succeeds or fails, even the fate of the International Business Machine corporation, is small compared to that. We are running a civil rights movement. We're not trying to compete everybody out of business, or anybody out of business. We don't care who succeeds or fails in the marketplace. We have our eyes on the prize. We know where we are going: Freedom. Now.