Summary: James Fallows discusses the challenge of the 'virtual cloud'. There is a constant struggle, he describes, between maintaining 'open systems' while dealing with threats from the virtual world. Fallows explains that the 'American Idea' is influential yet in need of 'shoring up'. He states that America's success should be providing the arena where diverse people may come together to collaborate, innovate and dream up products. Ideally this success is "...seen not as one country's achievement but of the world's."
