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Originally Posted by wdb
I get the invasion of privacy thing but to be honest...
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I think of it as less 'invasion' and more 'obsolescence'. Since it it's one of those things that enabled the Enlightenment, I think that is short-sighted technologically.
Imagine a world where Al Gore had listened to
John Gilmore and commissioned Bitcoin instead of surrendering Internet to the credit card companies. I can. It's full of geodesic domes.
Edit: I met John Gilmore once. If you doubt his creds — from the link:
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He co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol in 1985, which evolved into DHCP - the primary way local networks assign devices an IP address.
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