Zwei kleine Visionen

verfasst von R.Deutsch, 11.08.2002, 09:23

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Internet voting, IMHO, will bring true democracy rather than a
> representatives democracy.

Well, that's just plain wrong.

Go look up discussions on google about cryptographic protocols for
internet voting. It just ain't possible without the most strict,
obscene, biometric, draconian,"is a person", non-anonymous methods
you ever saw. Lions, tigers, and precious bodily fluids, boys and
girls.

The point to democracy, in the industrial/agricultural political
sense, is one man, one vote. One *anonymous* vote. On the net,
paradoxically, that is completely impossible. Votes can be sold. If
you fix it so that you can't sell votes without forgoing your
identity -- and thus your freedom -- and physically showing up
somewhere to vote, or at least proving that you have a device that
identifies you as a voter in the most immediate terms possible, you
can sell your vote, anonymously, on the net, for whatever the market
will bear, and *that* person can *re*sell your vote, and so on, just
like it was voting rights to a share of stock. That bit of
cryptographic mobiosity is probably down at the semantic level of
consistency versus completeness. Somewhere, Goedel and Russell are
laughing.

The net result, of course, of any kind of truly anonymous internet
voting, is anarchocapitalism, where people sell their voting control
over assets, including political"assets", over and over in secondary
markets, on a continuing basis, in real-time. No political small-d
democrat (or small-r republican, or small-l libertarian, whatever)
I've ever heard of would call that a"true" democracy.

That particular prospect has anarchocapitalists, and
crypto-anarchists, out at the bar, buying both Herr Professor Goedel
and Lord Russell a beer or two...

Und zur Zukunft des Staates

Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography +
weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one
has realized it yet.

In 100 years no one will give a rip about democracy. The states will be so
small that it won't really matter. It will be about as relevant as the
great debates over how many angels could dance on the head of pin that took
place in the 1400's.

Instead of voting for politicians in your own city-state, you will be able
to just move to the city-state whose legal framework, and economic
environment most closely resembles your own values. In a world of
microbrews, custom cars, and nanotechnology, its only a matter of time until
we see customized microstates.

Fröhliche Zukunft wünscht

RD

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