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Re: Digicash bankruptcy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SECRET AGENT 66)
Fri Nov 6 14:10:46 1998

Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:44:44 -0500 (EST)
From: SECRET AGENT 66 <JOABJ@delphi.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
X-VMS-To: INTERNET"cypherpunks@cyberpass.net"
Reply-To: SECRET AGENT 66 <JOABJ@delphi.com>

>The root failure of Interactive TV was the assumption             
>that the world wanted to spend its time passively consuming the dross
>pumped out through a 1000 channel

	Actually, the failure of interactive tv was that the world
was perfectly happy passively comsuming the dross
pumped out through a 1000 channels. 

	Probably explains the failure of digicash, too. 

		joab


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