The "Future" Fallacy

blancw at accessone.com blancw at accessone.com
Tue Dec 5 23:24:19 PST 1995


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."
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Billg is an optimist.

What's wrong with this picture, Duncan?

  ..
Blanc







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