Wow, While trying to see reactions to the word hate, I saw ALOT of whatever statements. o.0 Anyway, I didn't hate the idea. In fact, it seems kind of interesting. I really do believe his reaction is completely cultural. Sex is doesn't need to be kept a secret. And his reaction seems to be that. Privacy is rather outmoded concept, at least when you can find anything about anyone at at anytime. Given a month and some meager resources, you could find a lot about a person. Humans aren't random. We are completely traceable, to a point where anything we do is predictable on a scatter plot.
I think Sheldon Glasgow was the nearest to accurate. Most of their predictions were almost 100%.
SHELDON GLASHOW
Written on the Eastern Air Shuttle between Boston and N.Y.
What will life be like in the year 2012? There will have been no nuclear war, and the threat of such a war will have been removed by the mutual nuclear disarmament of the major powers. SDI, Reagan's ill advised Star Wars program will have come to nothing.
Japan will be the central economic power in the world, owning or controlling a significant part of European and American industries. This "economic dictatorship" will be beneficial to Japan's client states, since Japan benefits by keeping its customers healthy and wealthy. Indeed, a peaceful and prosperous world community will owe its existence to this Pax Japanica.
Many diseases will be curable: diabetes and gout, for example, will be treated by 'genetic engineering' techniques. Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease will be effectively cured. However, AIDS will not yet have been controlled. It will have become the leading cause of death worldwide with millions of new cases each year.
The American economy will have experienced a gentle yet relentless decline. Our children will not live such comfortable lives as we do. The spread between the rich and the poor will have grown, and crime will have become so prevalent as to threaten the social fabric. The rich and the poor will form 2 armed camps. Most automobiles and heavy machinery will be manufactured in Japanese owned planets located in America. Yet, agriculture and higher education will be our most successful exports. There will be no fast trains connecting American cities, but a network of levitated superconducting trains will be under construction in Western Europe and in Japan.
I decided to see what they had to say to a question I had. This is the responses they gave! :3
How do you see yourself combating the rapid fluctuation of price vs value when dealing with merchants?
Brian Armstrong: good question
Brian Armstrong: two thoughts on that
Brian Armstrong: one would be an automatic withdrawal rule they could setup
Brian Armstrong: so it just gets converted automatically when it arrives and deposits once a day or something
Brian Armstrong: the other is that i think the exchange rate volatility is largely a short term problem, volatility decreases as volume of transactions increases
Brian Armstrong: so if you believe btc volume of transactions will be much higher in 5 years, then exchange rate volatility will be much lower
→Makes sense, Saw the site mentioned on hacker news, so that means you'll probally mentioned on slashdot at some point
→^.^
Brian Armstrong: at least that is my guess :)
Brian Armstrong: hope so
Brian Armstrong: maybe I should submit it?
Brian Armstrong: haven't slashdotted in a few years
→heh, you could try, though slashdot seems to be consolidated to a few power submitters lately, might try reddit?
→Where bitcoin could REALLY take off is CPU usage cycles
→Since bitcoin is fractional
Brian Armstrong: oh yeah, tiny amounts
→Instead of charging pennies per cycle, you could specify exact amounts per clock
→so instead of 1 penny per second
→.00001 per clock or whatever is the better value
→It'd be alot more precise
→It must be interesting to start a company like this. Are you / your company registered in the united states? And if so, How do you feel about their reaction to bitcoin?
Brian Armstrong: yep that'd be interesting for sure
Brian Armstrong: we're incorporated in delaware (U.S.)
Brian Armstrong: based in california
Brian Armstrong: we have the backing of really good investors who want to see innovation happen
Brian Armstrong: as long as we pursue licensing as a money transmitter (same as facebook credits, paypal, etc) i think we'll be ok
Brian Armstrong: it will def be controversial though
→I wonder how mt.gox handles it
Brian Armstrong: they are incorporated outside the U.S. (Japan I believe)
→nods
→Well, If it's ok with you, i'll post this to the hacker news article and see what kind of discussions it generates? Only with your permission of course! =^.^=
Considering the effort that Apple marketing has made to make it clear that "Macs" and "PCs" are not the same thing, it would be very difficult to win a case, as Macs clearly don't getinfected by "PC" viruses.
Which is not to say that your stement is wrong - it is surprising that nobody has tried to sue, even if they would almost certainly lose...
