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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Another thing I rather liked: The idea that the Internet will one day be > passe. Goes against everything people are thinking right now. Dr. Brin's > a right contrarian sometimes, isn't he? :) Mmm yes, but it's not so much the Internet - everybody uses it - as concepts of digital transendence that are passe, whether it's the belief in human-like AI or the cypherpunkish belief in freedom-in-anonymity. The standing soul-wave kills the former while ubiquitous surveillance and interconnectivity kills the latter. On the other hand, doesn't Kiln People's future predict a collapse of traditional forms of government, which is very much in line with some cyber- and cypherpunkish predictions? Marvin Long Austin, Texas
