“I believe my plan can be accomplished within 10 years if this country takes decisive and bold steps immediately. This plan dramatically reduces our dependence on foreign oil and lowers the cost of transportation. It invests in the heartland, creating thousands of new jobs. It substantially reduces America’s carbon footprint and uses existing, proven technology. It will be accomplished solely through private investment with no new consumer or corporate taxes or government regulation. It will build a bridge to the future, giving us the time to develop new technologies.”

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Here’s an article addressing the Bear Stearns debauchle and how e-mail played a roll in Cioffi and Tannin’s undoing.

I was talking to my wife about this last night… I can’t believe that these two boneheads were capable enough to leverage the kind of money and power they were privvy to and still manage to lack the common sense to encrypt their emails when discussing private and sensitive matters. As much as this sub-prime blow out should disturb anyone with any interest in the national and world markets, these folks total lack of discretion (not to mention reprehensible ethics and respect for their fellow human beings and clients) should send a signal of clear and approaching fucking catastrophe in the near future.

If Cioffi and Tannin’s complete ignorance about the visibility of e-mail - or complete disregard - is any indication of how many of this world’s top power players conduct themselves electronically it should be clear that those who want the world’s most valuable secrets probably already have them.

As of late we’ve been hammered over the head about China’s electronic espionage, but if you think China exists alone on that frontier you’re nuts. Every world power, every organized crime syndicate, every corporation and public and private body is either involved or about to be involved in this gaping wound of the invisible world we all inhabit, though only few have woken up into.

It’s high time that everyone take the time and interest to understand these silicon based machines which dominate nearly every aspect of our lives and demand that same level of interest and accountability from each person they conduct business and personal affairs with. Continuing to ignore the physics of the invisible world of information will soon prove to be as ill conceived and radioactive as when, back in the day, lunkheads used to make dinnerware from uranium.

Wake up folks, we’s in the future.

“At the end of the day, however, we are facing a much bigger, more metaphysical question… how much security do we want?”

This is a seriously heavy talk that I hope some of you give the 45 minutes it takes to get through. It’s dense and challenging and frightening, but there is probably no better time to start considering a post-singularity view of security than right now. If we do not establish the proper models of dignity, privacy and security now when humans are still the greatest computational threat to monitor we will, all too soon, fall prey to our own foolish misjudgements when computers exceed us.

Click here for the text version of this wonderful talk