Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Networks, who pays
Message-ID: <2358@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 07:05:47 GMT
References: <8811141443.AA06499@lll-crg.llnl.gov> <2231@ficc.uu.net> <6023@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Computer networks are going to become more than just the roads and phones
and TVs of the future.   They will be the very foundation of society
and commerce.

The most fundamental realization we can make today is that no single
entity can be allowed to control the networks.  Particularly the government.

If the government controls the networks, we will be *literally* one
keystroke away from a police state.  Not that the government may want
that.  But if all you have to do is load your programs into the network
to control society, someday it will happen.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473