At 7:24 AM 12/6/95, blancw@accessone.com wrote:
From: Duncan Frissell
Bill Gates (like Mister Newt before him) committed what I call the Future Fallacy in "The Road Ahead." Page 106.
"Soon any child old enough to use a computer will be able to transmit coded messages that no government on earth will find easy to decipher." ...................................................
Billg is an optimist.
What's wrong with this picture, Duncan?
I found nothing wrong or incorrect with the quote Duncan attributed to Bill Gates (I haven't read Gates' book). I couldn't understand Duncan's koan, shrugged, and moved on. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."