Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier, by BradCox. Addison Wesley,
The Good News: There is a Silver Bullet. The Bad News: Silver Bullets are Paradigm Shifts, Not Tools.BradCox describes SuperDistribution at http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Superdistribution/index.html, part of his Middle of Nowhere web pages.
Review: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Superdistribution.html
For recent developments, see http://virtualschool.edu/mybank, a fully functional technology feasibility demonstration of the whole system. --BradCox
Or you can read Clay Shirky's