Here's the notes from David Brin's talk (taken on the wearable 6/10/96)

David Brinn talk, 06/10/96

The Camera's are coming.
Critisism is how we avoid error, but it's not something most leaders
like to hear.  The US is so succesful because the advicarial system
works.  

2 examples (one from "Earth", one from Niel Stevenson) about Mann-Cam
like stuff.

Supports Clipper -- "it would've been better than a local texas sherif
with a pair of Aligator clips, but that wasn't good enough [for the EFF]."

2 types of people: Truds who steal wheat and women, and liars/song&dance.

Science is about truth and honesty, and is therefor hard and grownup
and therefor not normal for humans.

Scientists are the least hated of all the priesthoods.

The first step of Wisdom is realization that you can lie to yourself.
Jesus, Lau Tzu, etc all said "step 2 is to give up and be detached"

Galeo said he didn't know what it was, but he could show a thousand things
it isn't.

The internet can give us a world where we can do advicarial error correction
in realtime.

Without self-rightiousness, we could have the moderate democrates watch
the corporations, moderate republicans watch the govt, and be 
advicarial *partners*.

People with stong ego's tend to do little harm, people with frial ego's
have something to prove.

Edward Teller is his new hero.  He supported openness.

'We should be suspicious of any attempt to preclude light'

EFF fears that without crypto, eccentricity will be suppressed.
They believe that crypto will solve it.  There's no support for
that in history.

The solution to freedom is to deny the light to the tyrents.

What's the solution to the "busybody" problem, where the neighborhood
busybody works for the KGB?  (answer: during a brief uprising, they all
nailed the busybody's cats to their doors)

The small-villiage is coming, the camera's are coming -- the only
question is whether we have access to them as well.

As long as we've got 2000 skilled biologists to one lunatic we'll be allright.

There's a 60% chance our grandchildren will be gods.  The other 40% is
that we'll hit the worst eccological disaster since the dinasaurs.

People have to get better, or we're all toast.  One of the ways we'll
do it is by having kids grow up with a sense of accountability.
"Be excellent to eachother" isn't enough -- we need accountability to 
avoid "Lord of the flies."  We're finding common ground not through
niceness, but through politeness.  "An armed society is a polite
society. -- Heinline"  Same true for information -- an informed
society is an honest one.

Current video-games suck lifespan out of people.  OOP could be used
to make kits, just like the greasers of the 50's.

Our culture is aolescent -- all others were childish with warrier hero's.
We need to grow up and we're one of the first to do it.

wierd thing about cypherpunks -- they love cyberpunk but distrust the
government, not big business.

He wants crypto to be more expensive, looked down on, and taxed.  (same
as drugs).

big fan of transaction taxes -- wants transactions to be open to 
the public.

4 options: light on both, big-only, small-only, and both have it
Tobacco:
Every generation has had a different approach to stop the free enterprise
system from being controlled by a choke-chain by a few businesses.  Last
generation it was the GI bill.

We need to change society to think whistleblowing is good.
He wants, specifically, to stop the "jamming" of lots of crypto
so we won't know who to ask.
Wants to see mutual transparancy solutions proposed as part of the debate.

Wants a prediction registry to find out who's usually right.  Then hook
up good predictors with the pretty-boys like JFK Jr.

Meme's: The East (Singapore's model, not China, which is corrupt)
	Machisimo (4 different kinds)
	Paranoia (US cold war)
	Otherness/diversity (very thin in the US, but our "official" one)

Our system is based on low fear and wealth -- it's unclear it'll work 
otherwise.  

In it's good side, we're going to be taken over by hobbiests, which
is cool.