When Cryptography Is Outlawed, Bayl Bhgynjf Jvyy

Notions Of Property, Value, Ownership, And The Nature Of Wealth Itself Are Changing More Fundamentally Than At Any Time Since The Sumerians First Poked Cuneiform Into Wet Clay And Called It Stored Grain ... Few People Are Aware Of The Enormity Of This Shift And Fewer Of Them Are Lawyers Or Public Officials.

We Are In The Middle Of The Most Transforming Technological Event Since The Capture Of Fire.

If Someone Like Karl Rove Had Wanted To Neutralize The Most Creative, Intelligent, And Passionate Members Of His Opposition, He'd Have A Hard Time Coming Up With A Better Tool Than Burning Man. Exile Them To The Wilderness, Give Them A Culture In Which Alpha Status Requires Months Of Focus And Resource-consumptive Preparation, Provide Them With Metric Tons Of Psychotropic Confusicants, And Then... Ignore Them. It's A Pretty Safe Bet That They Won't Be Out Registering Voters, Or Doing Anything That Might Actually Threaten Electoral Change, When They Have An Art Car To Build.

In Cyberspace, The First Amendment Is A Local Ordinance.

But Generally Speaking, I Felt To Engage In The Political Process Was To Sully Oneself To Such A Degree That Whatever Came Out Wasn't Worth The Trouble Put In.