On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
It's out. Sameer made the cover of Forbes with a picture captioned "This man wants to overthrow the government".
If that is the case, he better hurry. "the government" will be obsoleted in about a decade :). On the other hand, he probably has been more persistent in the US than anyone else in hurrying this process of planned obsolecense. Marx's dialectic said the government would disappear after everything was communist. Cypherpunk's dialectic says the government will disappear after technology leaves it behind as an old relic of a barbaric past next to the divine right of kings. If there is a serpent in the new garden, it is that then we *MUST* govern ourselves - personally, and individually, and I don't know how many are capable of living virtuously. But at least the virtuous won't be taxed to subsidize the vicious. --- reply to tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com ---