Trusted Computing
derrickoswald writes "John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk, has posted The Digital Imprimatur, a monograph on technologies such as the Trusted Computing initiative.
Some of the prognostications and conclusions reached may not be palatable to Slashdot readers."
This is Google's cache of http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/digital-imprimat ur/
Schrödinger's cat is not amused—maybe.
Explanation is here -- people were making those predictions for at least 20 years already, though with different reasons to support it.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.