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The "Future" Fallacy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Tue Dec 5 06:47:33 1995

Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 06:44:42 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>

Bill Gates (like Mister Newt before him) committed what I call the Future
Fallacy in "The Road Ahead."  Page 106.

"Soon any child old enough to use a computer will be able to transmit coded
messages that no government on earth will find easy to decipher."

DCF

"Term limits aren't enough.  We need jail." -- PJ


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