From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 05:08:35 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Heavy Weather
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Just finished reading Bruce Sterling's newest novel.
I enjoyed it and suggest it will interest hard sci-fi fans.
Its a very much post cypherpunk world he writes about, e.g.:
" ... It all had to do with unbreakable encryption, digital
authentification, anonymous remailing, and network untraceability.
These were all computer networking techniques that had once been
considered very odd and naughty. They were also so elementary to
do, that once they were in place, they couldn't be stopped
without tearing the whole Net down.
Of course once these techniques were in place, they conclusively
destroyed the ability of governments to control the flow of
electronic funds, anywhere, anytime, for any purpose. As it
happened, this process had pretty much destroyed any human control
at all over the modern electronic economy. ..."
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