For those of you in the NYC area, I'm presenting a forum next week on "Political Life in Cyberspace" (not my title). I'm going to skip the boring net-boosterism and talk mainly about several bleak scenarios I've been thinking about for the past year or two: the imminent death of the net, the impossibility of digital privacy, and various impending threats, like government/corporate crackdowns on privacy, the disneyfication of the net and conversion to a digital Home Shopping Network, Alta Vista and the increase in dossiers, etc. If I'm in a good mood, I may also talk about how a very close friend of mine was fired for making "unflattering remarks" about her employer on the cypherpunks list. Here are the details: Date: Tuesday, March 12 Place: The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27 St., 10th Floor (NYC) Time: 8:00 p.m. Price: FREE (donation requested) --------------------------------------------- An anarchist forum presented by the Libertarian Book Club -- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com http://www.wfmu.org/~davem