Since you included my name in your 03-Jun-02 - 02:05 PM post, Lonesome EJ, I guess I need to refer you to my 02-Jun-02 - 03:45 AM post, in which I address the issue of how I think things are evolving. Coercion doesn't enter into the picture at all from the perspective I'm using.

But, to simplify things even further, I think that what will finally change the way people do business will be enlightened self interest. People will change when they see that they don't have any other choice. (And I do believe that this will happen in the not to distant future.) What the system will look like when that happens is the only thing that is in question (from my perspective).