At 9:25 PM -0400 on 8/11/00, vinton g. cerf wrote:
good god we have the lobbyists trying to engineer the Internet
now - everyone is an expert it seems. :-(
Is that any surprize to anybody?
They have guns, they take your money, and they make you do things with
both. Same as it ever was.
That will probably change someday, reality, economic or otherwise, not
being entirely optional, and the very attempts to legislate physics
demonstrated by "kiddiespace" proposals like this one demonstrate just how
"real" the internet has become.
Fortunately "code" is more real than "Code", as it were.
Cheers,
RAH
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