Nice article Hal, if a somewhat odd title :-).
At 02:04 PM 2/4/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>We might see a desire to extend physical control into the virtual world,
>... Or, we could see that the libertarian electronic world undermines
>the authoritative physical one, as more of the economy becomes based
>on information. People would engage in economic transactions which the
>physical world can't monitor, and more importantly, can't tax. This was
>the original cypherpunk model but it remains to be seen whether this
>could actually work.
I don't think this will work. See: http://hanson.gmu.edu/privacy.html
Whether physical control is extended into the virtual world seems a tossup.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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