It's been said since 1970, that you could write any program you needed just be deleting instructions from one pass over the Univac Exec-8 source code. So what's the big deal?

Watch out, everything becomes glass!

So, when will I be able to search for a feature film and watch it directly from the search result entry that returns its NUMBER -- a file is nothing more that a very big number, right? Does this mean that numbers beyond some value are not searchable?

Jane Jacobs, "Systems of Survival", of Greenwich Village, NYC, anti-housing projects fame. This dialogue is a quick read. The short answer is that in commerce honesty (a faxed signature) can be presumed, if it can't, commerce will fail.