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- <p>The nature of the dangers depend on the nature of the architecture. The
- architectures of the first generation of electronic media -- radio and
- television -- amplified censorship and diminished free speech. The architecture
- of the Net has dramatically turned this around, creating actual freedom
- of speech more absolutely than even the best constitutions. Might a decent
- architecture for distributed smart contracting treat regulation as damage
- and route around it? </p>
+ <p>The nature of the dangers depend on the nature of the architecture [<a href="#Lessig99">Lessig99</a>].
+ The architectures of the first generation of electronic media -- radio
+ and television -- amplified censorship and diminished free speech [<a href="#Pool84">Pool84</a>].
+ The architecture of the Net has dramatically turned this around, creating
+ actual freedom of speech more absolutely than even the best constitutions.
+ Might a decent architecture for distributed smart contracting treat regulation
+ as damage and route around it? </p>
<p>The most powerful answer is already implicit in the architecture of the
digital path -- a diversity of contract hosts, spread across competing
jurisdictions, themselves competing to establish a reputation for operating
honestly. Any one government going bad would endanger many contracts and
much property, but will cause a flight of electronic business towards
- climates expected to remain freer. This dynamic is already seen for international
- money flows.</p>
+ climates expected to remain freer. </p>
<p><i>Fault tolerant computing</i> studies how to build reliable systems
from unreliable components. For example, for certain demanding applications
an individual actual computer may be considered unreliable, but a reliable
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<p>This new world of Net-based jurisdiction-free coercionless smart contracting
-- the digital path -- is an option for the first world as well as the
third. Both groups stand to gain tremendously by this transition. Virtually
- all progress to date towards the digital path <font color="#000000">[<a href="#Johnson96">Johnson96</a>,
- </font><a href="#Lessig99">Lessig99</a>, <a href="#Krecke01">Krecke01</a>]
- has been in the first world. Nevertheless, once technology costs become
- inconsequential, we expect the third world to overtake and then lead the
- first in making this transition. Why?</p>
+ all progress to date towards the digital path [<a href="#Johnson96">Johnson96</a>,
+ <a href="#Lessig99">Lessig99</a>, <a href="#Krecke01">Krecke01</a>] has
+ been in the first world. Nevertheless, once technology costs become inconsequential,
+ we expect the third world to overtake and then lead the first in making
+ this transition. Why?</p>
<h3><a name="legitimacy"></a>Comparative Legitimacy</h3>
<p>Primarily because, once again, of the issue of legitimacy. The character
of legitimacy in the first world is quite different than the legitimacy
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<p><a name="Miller00"></a>[Miller00] Mark S. Miller, Chip Morningstar, Bill
Frantz, "<b>Capability-based Financial Instruments</b>", Proceedings
of Financial Cryptography 2000, Springer Verlag. Online at <a href="http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html">http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html</a>.</p>
+ <p><a name="Pool84"></a>[Pool84] Ithiel De Sola Pool "<b>Technologies
+ of Freedom</b>", Harvard University Press, 1984.</p>
<p><a name="Pospisil71"></a>[Pospisil71] Leopold Pospisil, "<b>The
Antropology of Law: a comparative theory</b>", Harper and Row, 1971.</p>
<p><a name="Rees96"></a>[Rees96] Jonathan Rees, "<b>A Security Kernel