The new economy 
of free range bits and bytes
bought to rein at keyboard commands
Raising intellectual property 
on our electronic farms.
Software images challenge the mind
business and pleasure redefined.

If I sell you my car 
I can no longer own it;
by selling ideas we all can benefit
But watch out for the intellectual property pirates
who want to steal your thoughts
and get to the patent office first.

Living in cyberspace at light speed
There's no stopping the gossip here
Riding the information superhighway,
changing gear
Out on the new wild western, 
electronic frontier.

Atom-based exports still dominate our thinking
but the cost of distribution is crippling.
In Asia- Pacific new opportunities beckon
for software, technology and communications.
The electronic pioneers are putting their stake in.

Send the Knowbots to fetch and see
your personalised view of the world for as fee
Email, Web browsing, database access
computing, edutainment, doing your taxes.
You can watch wall-sized movies or vote:
you're connected - you are your own node.

Living in cyberspace at light speed
There's no stopping the gossip here
Riding the information superhighway,
changing gear
Out on the new wild western, 
electronic frontier.

It's an integrated, cut and paste it
multimedia, regurgitated, digital world.
Communications new dimensions
zeros and one's and their multiplication.
It's happening so fast it leaves you numb
Here the components are greater than the sum.

Laws that pre-date photocopying machines
have no place in the multimedia dream
The pyramids inverting: industries are converging
we're mining the information seam.

Living in cyberspace at light speed
There's no stopping the gossip here
Riding the information superhighway,
changing gear
Out on the new wild western, 
electronic frontier.

From the Buzz Words CD. Keith Newman (1994-96)