In the spirit of the Second Annual Cypherpunks Conference in the Bay Area this Saturday, here are a variety of visions for future crypto-anarchy: * GUIs for X, Mac, & Windows that make PGP mail encryption & key handling, anon remailer envelope-stuffing, etc. seamless * mobile.com: pirate crypto ham and shortwave on the Internet * How much computing power and radio gear can be crammed into a van? An RV? A yacht? * Fiber or hi-bandwidth satellite hookup for RV parks and yacht berths * Itinerant hackers, indigent anarchists, and perpetual tourists. Physical crypto-raves for cyberspace biz & social partners * Discovering, debugging, and implementing true software digicash (upon which the following visions depend!) * Distributed digicash banking, offshore, virtually & physically mobile * International digicash telecommuter contracting: programming, publishing, typing pools, etc. Crypto-anarchy for the middle class; pirate CD-ROM libraries for the 3rd World masses. * Internet Casino: why travel to Las Vegas or Monte Carlo when you can play the finest games in the privacy of your own home? * Integration of BBS businesses (already >$1 billion per year) into the digicash economy * Effective law enforcement approaches terrorism: random hits against fixed, centralized physical targets to generate intimidating publicity * Millions of jobs for college grads and military-industrial complex workers: future digicash-related markets in the $trillions per year Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com
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