I just finished reading this very interesting editorial written by Tom "20mm" Hayden over at SimHQ. Funny how easy it was to relate the whole stuff to things which have happend (and will happen in the future) here at subsim.com. I suggest you take a look at the Editorial yourself here :
http://www.simhq.com/_all/all_024a.html .
In my opinion it is well worth the read.
Cheers
OS