charter cities

Romer suggests an ideal construct fo future city development. His view seems to be a business model for government. Everyone relishes the ability to have choices and that would be innovative, but at what cost would government provide choice. It fits alongside President Obama's health care reform current propositions. We all want choice, but what will we give up to have it. It seems too idealistic to just say you will have all the best choices at your disposal, that has never been the case, so how exactly will this be constructed? I need Romer to explain more in detail how will charter cities provide the best choices, and not just basic and standard choices? The idea is positive, but it seems intangible, control of resources and might seem to govern cities now, why would cities decide to build in places where it would cost to import resources, and or maintian more the alloted land? I like his intentions, but it seems to simply stated.

Lessig and code 2.0 have provided a relaistic view of the cyber intense world we are creating. The connectivity and information we create is now more and more perpetuated through an abstract portal that its seems inevitable that we will live in two worlds eventually, our real life and the cyber life. How will this be regulated, and will we push to create this, or like video games feel the guilt and resume to the concrete. Very pressing issue. I have no answer, but it is interesting.