Utopia

Utopian ideas never left the minds of mankind. Search and experiment to create a better society - why be shy, a better world! - do not stop to this day. It is naive to believe that only the thirst for self-interest drives the person - on the contrary, in each of us there lives a child who aspires to embody the idea from the Strugatsky brothers' "Picnic on the Roadside:" "Happiness for all, for nothing, and let no one go offended." Over the years, we forget about it, allowing "realism" and "common sense" to suppress such wonderful thoughts. Only units lack enthusiasm and will power to declare their intentions, even less translates plans into life, forever changing the public outlook. The Internet space quickly acquired a pleiad of such personalities who loudly announced the prospects and the vector of the development of the Network. I dedicate this chapter to them. Shards of their ideas were formed into manifestos - in many respects similar and complementing each other. This once again confirms the expectations of the then still small Internet community, who saw almost the boundless possibilities of the new era. I will give three manifestos. Whether you will see in them the Internet today is not sure, but what is beyond doubt - will receive a powerful energy charge. In order to trace the dynamics of changes, I bring the manifestos in the chronological order of their publication.
The authorship of the first text belongs to one of the leading engineers of Intel Timothy May. May - one of the creators and the most active participant in the electronic mailing of the nineties "Cuberpunckers". Then he published many essays on cryptography, but the most popular was his "Manifesto of Cryptoanarchism." Utopianism and the revolutionary spirit of work cause an indulgent smile, but the appearance of such a text in 1992 is a sign of the existence of many residents of the Network of ambitions - political and social ambitions. Let's get acquainted with the full text of this work.
"The specter is haunting the modern world, the ghost of cryptoanarchy. Computer technologies are on the verge of enabling individuals and groups to communicate and interact absolutely anonymously. Two people will be able to exchange messages, engage in business, enter into electronic contracts, not being able to establish True Names, each other's identities. Interaction in the Network will not be tracked due to multiple changes in the routes of encrypted packets and prevent blocks that give cryptographic protocols almost perfect protection.
Reputation will be of paramount importance when concluding transactions, much greater than now has a credit rating. These innovations will completely change the nature of state regulation, the ability to levy taxes and monitor relations in the economy, the ability to store information in secret; Even the notions of trust and reputation will change their essence.
Technology for such a revolution - and this revolution will definitely be both social and economic - was theoretically developed in the past decade. Its methods are based on the use of public keys, authentication systems based on evidence with zero disclosure and a variety of software protocols designed for interaction, authentication and verification.
To this day, the focus was on academic conferences in Europe and the US, conferences, closely watched by the National Security Agency. But only recently computer networks and personal computers have acquired the speed, sufficient for the practical implementation of these ideas. And in the next decade the speed will increase even more, in order to make these ideas economically feasible and irreversible.
The state, obviously fearing social disintegration, will try to slow or stop the spread of such technologies, citing national security considerations, the use of these technologies by drug dealers and tax evaders. Any of these considerations will be justified: cryptoanarchy will allow free trade in national secrets, as well as illegal drugs and stolen goods. An anonymous computerized market will make it possible even to create a heinous market for contract killings and extortions. Criminal elements and foreigners will become active users of CryptoNet. But this will not stop cryptoanarchy. Just as the technology of printing has changed the social structure and reduced the power of medieval guilds, cryptographic methods will fundamentally change the corporations and the role of the state in economic transactions. In combination with the emerging information markets, cryptoanarchy will create a liquid market for any materials that can be represented as words or images.
Like the seeming minor invention of barbed wire, which allowed to enclose huge ranches and farms and thus permanently changed the notion of land and property rights in the western states, the "minor" discovery of the "dark side" of mathematics became nippers, cutting barbed wire around intellectual property.
Act, for you have nothing to lose, except these hedges of barbed wire! " (Source)
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