RE: FYI: MEDIA & Greenpeace

From: Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 1996 - 17:42:12 MST


>><You might find this amusing. I stumbled across the Web site for the
>>Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. http://www.vhemt.org/aboutvhemt.html
>> [snip] VHEMT wants to end all human breeding so that the human race
>>eventually becomes extinct in order to save the earth.>
>
>As long as they do their part, this movement should be extinct in roughly 75
>years. I like to think of it as evolution in action. ;)

Hehe, I quite agree. Every anti-scitech movement is an evolutionary dead-end.

>I take his major point to be that, much as "good pitching beats good
>hitting", good surveillance beats good privacy. Or to roughly quote
>him, what good does ironclad crypto do you if a gnat-sized camera can
>shoulder-surf you while you type?

Forget that, try nano cameras!



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