From: Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sasktel.net)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 21:19:47 MDT
The site came down before I could save the content.
There yesterday, gone by this PM.
It made the newswire here in Canada
I went to google cache and saved the text portions.
Would there be any other archived site copies not erased?
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter C. McCluskey [mailto:pcm@rahul.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 2:10 AM
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: Politicians attack idea futures
> >
> >
> >
> > The DARPA experiment that Robin helped design has been cancelled:
> > http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-terrormarket0729,0,6260339.st
> > ory?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation
> >
> > CNBC is running a poll about whether it was a good idea.
> > Please vote at:
> > http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/P56709.asp
> >
> > The reports indicate that it planned to provide anonymity (it's not
> > clear how reliable such anonymity would have been), which could have
> > enabled terrorists to profit from crimes under some
> > conditions (probably
> > only after years of testing under which the amounts traded gradually
> > increased to levels that matter).
> >
> > Don't despair too much - life insurance was initially attacked in
> > similar terms.
>
> I've run this idea by a sample of people working with me today, and they
> were repulsed by it. It's depressing, because it seemed like an obviously
> excellent idea to me when I first heard about it (yesterday). When you
> contrast it with the alternatives for dealing with terrorism, it's the idea
> of the decade to my mind.
>
> I don't know what you can do about this sort of thing, short of releasing
> intelligence enhancing nanobots into the drinking water.
>
> Emlyn
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