Tim May 1992 Post on Future of Cyberspace/Cryptology/Digital Money/Transnationalism

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 16:15:37 PST 2018


On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 2:03 PM juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 09:47:23 +0000 (UTC)
> jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >  On Saturday, December 22, 2018, 7:06:34 PM PST, juan <
> juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: tcmay at netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 11:06:29 PDT
> > >>>> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> > >>> Subject: Some (Pseudo)Random Thoughts
> >
> >
> > >> Networks are multiplying beyond
> > >> any hope of government control,
> >
> >
> >  >   prophetic words. Except the prophesy was 100% wrong =) =(
> >
> > But I wouldn't blame Tim May.
>
>         To be fair, here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc  is
> Tim May stating
>
>         "The US and other societies around the world are facing a turning
> point, a fork in the road where one path leads to a surveillance society
> effectively where people have television cameras recording their actions
> and conversations on a computer, all their transactions at stores,
> everything is completely tracked.
>
>         The other path, the other fork in the road moves in a direction
> where governments can't even collect taxes anymore because they don't know
> what interactions people are making. People are buying things and
> information from other countries and they won't even know in what countries
> the transactions are taking place."
>


      "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One
path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total
extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Woody Allen

>
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