On Thursday, November 7, 2019, 05:13:57 PM PST, Punk - Stasi 2.0
   <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:

   [quoting Chuck Hamill in 'From Crossbows to Cryptography'
   "Within a few years, it should be economically feasible to similarly
   encrypt voice communications; soon after that, full-color digitized
   video images. Technology will not only have made wiretapping obsolete,
   it will have totally demolished governmentâs control over information
   transfer"
   This was actually quite perceptive.  The key words are "economically
   feasible".   He didn't say it would happen as soon or readily as the
   economics would seem to have allowed,  We went through the 'Clipper
   Chip" thing in 1993, which died a fairly quick death by maybe 1995.
   Today, not only could I make phone calls that are encrypted, as well as
   video calls (encrypted?), I could do so from a tiny, battery-powered
   cordless smartphone that works just about anywhere most people live.
   I'd say Hamill did an excellent job of prognosticating in 1987.
   If you want to blame somebody for failing to deliver on a promised
   technical advance, blame AT+T for predicting the "Picturephone" product
   at the 1964 World's Fair.
   [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdCKBZP4Jo
                  Jim Bell

References

   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdCKBZP4Jo