Insanely Great: The Cypherpunk Totality

We often think of a digital totality as a dark, oppressive thing, and for obvious reasons. The digital totality of the cypherpunks, however, had a beautiful purpose: To escape the fears, manipulations, and extortion of the present world order, and build a better realm apart from them. As time has gone on, and however erratically and imperfectly, cypherpunk technologies have developed, and there are far more people working on them than ever before.

Civilization is a battle between production and plunder, with our digital realm devoted to production and the old order’s devoted to plunder. But the battle between the two goes further than even that, and by the time this presentation is finished, you’ll see that there are massive evolutionary benefits to winning this race.

Not one, but two digital totalities stand in front of us, one an Eden, the other an Abyss… and we are uniquely positioned to steer the future in one way or another.