Berkeley's spyware conference is today.  There are so many calls for "transparency" across so many online domains today -- tell us exactly what you're about to do to us, tell us the limitations and demands of your software, tell us what our future will be if we allow your code to execute inside our device, tell us whether a service we might like to use in the future will be blocked by the services we are about to use from you.  Tell us so that we can control our electronic destinies ourselves.

Someday this will sound so primitive to us.  We cannot possibly understand or anticipate all the intertwining consequences of each step we take.  Any EULA that would explain enough to be useful for us would take many minutes to read -- and we won't take that time.  Any set of symbols that we choose to show what software does will be hopelessly impoverished. 

That doesn't mean that we'll be without recourse -- but we'll just have to move it up a level.  Instead of trying to learn and understand everything ourselves, we'll ask networks to learn and understand for us.  It may be that, someday, joining one of these networks will be like joining a new country.