On 30 Mar 2003 at 22:36, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: > http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/31/knowledge/index.html?x > > "The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to > humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A > fully open society is our best chance for survival." > > Dr. Brin gets mentioned on page 2...
And I think "better than even" is hopeless optimistic, at least as regards the current social structure. I've never been overly attached to reprisentative democracy. Ideally, actually, one of the two systems (the other is a little complex...) wouls be like the Fifth Imperium from Weber's _Mutineers Moon_ series. The problem..is that the current goverments show no sign of willing to give up their strangehold on some technologies. And the US government has reacted - brilliantly if not to everyones tastes - in making 9/11 the springboard for ALL kinds of laws. A codified constitution...limits as much as it protects. I refer you to the, for example, the fact that VPN's and NAT are ALLREADY illegal in several US states. *sighs* I don't see it lasting forever. I don't see the change being peaceful. And the longer it takes, the worse it will be overall. I fear for the world I've borrowed from my children (the Native American Indian view as I recall - you borrow the world from your children, they don't inherit if from you). I guess in some ways I found _Dark Angel_ chillingly accurate. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
