Jeg tilføjer her endnu to faktorer: den stadigt voksende Internet-handel, hvilket kan udfordre staternes muligheder for at indkræve skat samt berige velfærdsstater, og år 2000, som kan foranledige visse forstyrrelser i datasystemerne.
To these, I would add two more: the growing trade taking place on the Internet, which might cause problems for individual states to collect taxes and thus fund the welfare state; and the fact that the year 2000 might cause some computer systems to fail.