Re: db$: The Wright Brothers vs. Chixalub

[chatski carl <chatski@gl.umbc.edu>]

I would like to make 2 short friendly ammendments

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> .... that privacy itself was an inherent good.

 that privacy itself was an inherent good in a hostile environment.

 But there is a higher goal.
 In an evironment of plenitude (rather than scarcity) every act can be
 purely symbiotic and in no-way parasitic.  In such an environment,
 (which we have technologically but not politically/economically) we can
 create a political/social system where there are no more fascists or
 statists.
  Then I want everyone to know everything about me.


> ....financial system goes away for a few days. Or a month.

 financial system goes away forever!!

> ...Is there any way to step in with digital bearer settlement as a
>robust alternative to book-entry funds transfer?

 IMHO the only robust, sustainable solution is to eliminate all forms of
 such accounting altogether, to decouple production from stored ability to 
 get what you need/want.
 
- Carl