I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

Hope does not always require probability.

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.