On 16 Jan 2001, at 14:55, Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Blossoming at the farthest fringes, there is the lush weirdness of a group
> called the Extropians -- for whom high-power encryption (combined with
> information technology) will yield revolutionary social changes, with the
> total collapse of the nation-state for openers.

I should think that social and government change come more
readily from the inability of a government to keep things secret
from the people; rather than the ability of the people to keep a
thing secret from the government.

Regards,
JIm
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