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Small economies tame the market, transforming it from a turbulent sea to a series of interlocking canals. They do this by draining the market into their reservoirs, leaving just enough to keep a liquid channel open throughout the world. Each reservoir is a pool of industrial resources. Material cycles through production and dissolution, maintaining the pools. Goods are trafficked among the economies, but end products tend to be assembled, used and recycled within the economies. An atmosphere of ideas becomes the main medium and currency of exchange. The exchange is free. Ideas and designs move among the people like oxygen, carbon and nitrogen; linking one way today, another tomorrow. The ideas are not bought and sold. They are attributable, but not owned. The economies do not compete to get other economies to buy their appliances. They make their own appliances, thank you very much. But designs compete. Popular and useful designs flourish. Design teams build on successful ideas. Standards emerge. It is good for the same design to be used by many economies. Parts will be widely available and repair procedures well known in distant places. People can move from economy to economy and find familiar technology. Meanwhile, innovations move through the economies under the impetus of technophile exuberance.
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