-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston (Formerly The Boston Society for Digital Commerce) Presents Perry E. Metzger "Possible Futures: The Impact of Ubiquitous High Speed Networking on Intermediation and Regulation" or "With Spring Street Brewing shares trading on the web, are gold denominated Burmese opium futures inevitable?" *Monday*, May 6, 1996 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Perry Metzger is the President of Piermont Information Systems Inc., a consulting firm specializing in communications and computer systems security. He has worked for, or consulted to, the New York financial community for most of the last decade. He has been strongly involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force's security area for some time, and is the author of several security related RFCs. He is also the co-chair of the IETF's Simple Public Key Infrastructure working group, which is developing public key cryptographic standards for the internet. Networking technology is racing far ahead of culture. Fiber optics offer the possibility of cheap truly ubiquitous internet service in the tens of gigabits per second within the decade, and cheap high speed mobile connectivity is also likely. We will likely live in a world where anyone can sit in a park with a cheap laptop and communicate over a multi-megabit per second channel to any other civilized location on the planet. This development may radically change our culture, and with it the nature of regulation and intermediation in the marketplace. Although opium futures trading might not be inevitable, the scope of the trends we are facing should not be underestimated. Mr. Metzger will discuss these and similar developments; he will also discuss the limits to our ability to predict or alter the course such changes will take. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on *Monday*, May 6, 1996 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have a jacket and tie dress code. Please note that this meeting is on *Monday* this month, due to a scheduling problem at the Harvard Club. We go back to meeting on the first Tuesday of the month in June. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, March 30, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for the following few months are: June Dan Shutzer FSTC July Pete Loshin Author, "Electronic Commerce" August Duane Hewitt Idea Futures We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah@shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMWv8/PgyLN8bw6ZVAQGu/gQAkdtTIsK6rbboD6NRVjpZD8WFMXgZGlOB 5MA4znnY/XC6qNvVseRRq0wcPukNsGoQdCE8LwwqS2oWdyMXlWdUO7RK+CgCvOGj 48HjCVcgItM4V3BW9W5CM897zBWAwfcCkfbzngwuhzinu0MHWgPK/MMSFX73/dtH 2kg/41CA6MM= =Tfdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/