enough problems -- let's talk doomsday 

"the Internet is dying" --  Karl Auerbach provocative article
http://www.circleid.com/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=29
between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations 
Internet will lose half its users in 6 months
i know some of you wouldn't consider this a problem
in its place a much more controlled approved set of communications
lesson 1: don't run tcpdump if you don't want to get depressed -- most of it is garbage
last i checked most TV was garbage too.  is it losing users?  or do we get smart technologies to help us use it
"digital imprimateur" -- john walker
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
"how big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle"
rich 'optimistic pessimism'
larry lessig's code of laws and future of ideas (from 4 slides back)
by leaving policy to the policy folks your future derives directly from their clue level
we need to own up to that
most optimistic pessimist lawyer on my bookshelf
bruce sterling keynote at NSF workshop feb 2002
http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/sterling.html
all SF writers are optimistic pessimist so that's not his accomplishment
his writing is...exceptional [read quotes]
ubicomp and ultrawideband and machines-building-machines are his messiahs
he doesn't hold back against the computer industry.  cute.