From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:55:30 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: sci fi
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Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> writes:
> At 09:50 PM 11/21/96 -0800, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
> >So will some exceptionally creative sort spend 3 or 4 hundred pages exploring
> >BlackNet and the future of global networking? 
> 
> We can only hope.

Sterling's "Islands in the Net" paints a picture of a global network
as a status quo reinforcing system, and where offshore data havens are
wiped out to the man by one world governemnt enforcers. Probably not
what you had in mind.

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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