`INDEX`

accelerationism, 219n12
Adam, Ken, 86
Addison, Joseph, 188
Adleman, Leonard, 40–42
Agassiz, Louis, 43
agorism, 176–78
air-dollars, 18
Alcor, 137–38, 205
Aliens (film), 122
American Information Exchange (AMIX), 69–73, 75, 79–80, 85
American Rocket Company, 69, 139
AMIX. See American Information Exchange
anabiosis, 143–46
anarchy. See crypto anarchy
anon.penet.fi, 94
anonymity: Bitcoin and, 163–64; digital currency and, 58–59, 85–87, 163; online, 60, 66–67, 84–85, 87, 89, 94
Anonymous, 82
Appadurai, Arjun, 209n14
Arcosanti, 119
Arc Technologies, 69
Armer, Paul, 49–50
Ashe, Thomas, 24
Aspen Dollars, 175
Assange, Julian, 65, 74, 87
assignats, 23
asymmetric key encryption. See public key encryption
Atlantis (utopian project), 180
Atlantis II (ship), 181
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale, 50–51
Austrian School of economics, 119, 122–26, 137, 147, 182
authentication: of Bitcoin, 193–95, 201; of coded communications, 37–38, 41–42; of currency, 2, 23, 25–26, 28, 192–93; of digital cash, 54–56; hashes as means of, 104; material qualities as means of, 2, 25; printing as means of, 23; signatures as means of, 22–23. See also public key encryption; “recognizable without being known”; security
Autodesk, 73, 75, 79–81
Back, Adam, 97–99, 101–2, 105, 107–8, 110, 117, 155, 157
Bakhmet’ev, Porfirii, 143
banks, virtual, 112–15
Barlow, John Perry, 88–89, 91; “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace,” 90
Bauhaus, 119
Beer, Stafford, 48
Bell, Tom. See Morrow, T. O.
Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward, 220n11
Bell Telephone, 74, 93
Bendiken, Arto, 176
Benjamin, Walter, 16, 21
Benkler, Yochai, 68
Bernanke, Ben, 154
Biagioli, Mario, 53
bills of exchange, 22–23
bin Ibrahim, Datuk Muhammad, 21
Biosphere II, 133
biostasis. See cryonics
Bitcoin: algorithms for, 107; and anonymity/identity, 163–64; blockchain of, 38, 111, 154, 159–60, 199–200, 204–5; career of, 204; computational nature of, 157–58; core features of, 158; creation of, 111, 117, 120, 153–56; digital signatures for, 42; Extropians and, 120; Finney and, 205; and the future, 197–98; hybrid character of, 156, 159; and institutional finance, 84; libertarians and, 191, 197–99; Merkle and, 38, 93; mining of, 159–60, 167, 200–201; precursors of, 42, 111, 155–59; scarcity as property of, 199–200, 201; and value, 195–96, 201; verification of, 193–95, 201
bit gold, 111, 155, 157–60, 162
BitTorrent, 110
black market: crypto anarchy as inspiration for, 203–4; for digital cash, 58, 66; for information, 79, 83–84
black market, for information, 83–84
BlackNet, 83–87, 90, 111, 120
Black Unicorn, 129
Blanchette, Jean-François, 41, 42, 46, 60
blinding factor, 57
blockchains, 38, 105, 111, 154, 159–60, 199–200, 204–5
b-money, 82, 102, 115–17, 155–59
Bogdanov, Alexander, 144, 146
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 123
Bond, James (film character), 86
Brand, Stewart, 71, 89
Brassard, Gilles, 58
Bretton Woods Conference, 190
Brik, Lili, 145
bureaucracy, 23
Bush, Vannevar, “As We May Think,” 47
Cabral, Anna, 21
capital, 126–27
cargo cults, 138
Carnap, Rudolf, 123
cash hoarding, 7
catallactics, 124–25
Chaum, David, 46, 52–61, 106, 111, 128, 139, 157, 186, 204
Chile, 123, 177
Church of Scientology, 94
ciphers. See codes and ciphers
Cloudflare, 105
Cocks, Clifford, 39
codes and ciphers, 34–37
coins: for Atlantis project, 181; digital, 112–13, 161–62, 169; as documents, 187–89; as expression of values, 171, 187–89; laws about minting/issuing, 172; libertarianism and, 150, 170, 171, 181–83, 191–92, 196–97; Liberty Dollar, 172–73; material properties of, 171, 173–74; for Minerva project, 173–74
collisions (computing), 104, 107–9
Community Memory, 64
computational currency, 157, 165
computational work, 99–101, 116, 165–66
confidential personal advertisements, 84–85
cosmograms: defined, 6, 11; energy certificates as, 12, 16; money as, 18; overview of, 10–12; self-reflexive, 88; time modeled by, 11–12
Counterfeit Detection System, 31–32
counterfeiting, 29–32, 56–57, 190, 193, 211n16. See also forgery
Craib, Raymond, 181, 182
Cray, Seymour, 166
Cray supercomputers, 166
credit cards, 48, 220n11
Cripeau, Claude, 58
cryonics, 73, 96, 119, 132–33, 135–46, 191, 205
Cryonics (magazine), 137
crypto anarchy, 66, 79–80, 82, 92, 95, 98, 113, 115, 203–4
CryptoCredits, 85, 111
cryptocurrency, 157–58, 191–93, 204. See also digital cash
Cunanan, Andrew, 184
Cuperman, Miron, 84
currency: analog and digital aspects of, 29–32; authentication of, 2, 23, 25–26, 28, 192–93; case examples of, 26–30; computational, 157, 165; crypto-, 157–58, 191–93, 204; as document to be read, 26–29; energy as, 9–10, 12; iron as, 189–90; material properties of, 9, 17, 25, 31, 177, 193; schemes for encouraging exchange of, 12; signatures on, 21–23; social relationships expressed through, 22–23, 28–29, 67–68; in the Technate, 9; technological imaginaries involving, 19–20. See also money
CWI Amsterdam, 218n12
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, 219n12
cyberspace, 88–89, 91
cypherpunks, 63–64, 66–68, 74, 79, 80, 87, 91–95, 97–98, 113, 120, 183, 215n34
Dafoe, Willem, 31
Dai, Wei, 82, 102, 114–17, 120, 155–57, 159, 183
Daily Princetonian (newspaper), 8
darknet, 92
D’Aureous, Skye, 122
Dawidowicz, Lucy, The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945, 50
debit cards, 50
Debord, Guy, 119
decas, 181
decentralization, 115–16, 125
Deleuze, Gilles, 51–52
Deng Xiaoping, 78
Depression. See Great Depression
Deringer, William, 210n17
Desan, Christine, 15, 19
Deutsche Bank, 60
de Wolf, Aschwin, 137
Diffie, Whitfield, 37–42, 46, 158
DigiCash, 53, 58–60, 128, 157
digital banks, 67–68
digital bearer certificates, 214n26
digital cash: authenticity and security of, 54–59; basic conditions for, 1; Chaum’s experiment with, 53–61; chief issues for, 1–2; cryonics in relation to, 137, 139; dystopian perspective on, 151; Extropians and, 127–29, 147; future orientation of, 203; how it works, 54–55; as information, 72–73; minting of, 116–17; motivations for promotion of, 1; origins of, 53; potential audiences for, 95–96
digital data: authentication and counterfeiting issues in, 30–32; coded communications using, 38–42; surveillance and control using, 49–53; value of, 2–3. See also information marketplace
digital gold currencies (DGCs), 175–76
digital metallism, 169
disciplinary society, 51
discounting, 13–15, 210n17
Dodd, Nigel, The Social Life of Money, 7, 13, 200
double-spending, 158–59, 168
Dow Chemical, 7
Draghi, Mario, 21
Drinan, Robert, 149
Dr. Strangelove (film), 86
Duvos, Mike, 129
Dwiggins, W. A., 17, 28
Dwork, Cynthia, “Pricing via Processing,” 218n6
Dyson, Esther, 71–73
Eames, Charles, 31
e-bullion, 175
e-cash, 53–61, 139
Edgerton, David, 210n16
e-gold, 175–76
Eichacker, Reinhold, Der Kampf ums Gold, 19
Einstein, Albert, 140, 141
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 81, 89
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), 49
Electronic Value Exchange (EVE), 49
elitism, 149
Ellis, James, 39
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, 153
energy, expended by working with digital currency, 165–66, 168, 200–201
energy certificates, 9–10, 12, 16
Enigma machine, 37
entropy, 105
Ethereum, 204
Ettinger, R. C. W., 141, 145
EURion Constellation, 31–32
Executive Order 6102, 170
Extropians, 77, 78, 111; and Austrian economists, 12, 118, 119, 122–25; chief concerns of, 120–21; core features of, 118, 122; and cryonics, 135–46; and digital currency, 127–29, 147; legacy of, 204; origins of, 120; overview of, 118–22; strategies of, for bringing about the future, 127–36, 146–47
Extropy (journal/zine), 118, 120, 122, 128, 129, 136, 139, 182
Extropy Institute, 133
Fairey, Shepard, Obey, 31
Farads, 9
Federal Reserve, 29, 112
fidelity, 71–72
filtering, 98
Finney, Fran, 136
Finney, Hal, 55, 61, 107–8, 110–11, 115, 117, 120, 128, 129, 154–58, 165–66, 205
Florida, 24
FM-2030 (né Fereidoun M. Esfandiary), 122
Ford, Henry, 149
forgery, 45, 160. See also counterfeiting
Foucault, Michel, 51
Fox News, 174
France, 10, 23
Franklin, Benjamin, 189–90
fraud, 58
Frayling, Christopher, 86
freedom, 93, 131, 147
Freedom of Information Act, 93
Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu, 172
Free Oceana, 133
free/open source software movement, 68, 87–88, 93
Free Republic of Liberland, 197–98
Free State Project, 191
Freud, Sigmund, 123
Friedkin, William, To Live and Die in L.A., 31
Friedman, Elizebeth and William, 93
Friedman, Milton, 177, 184
Friedman, Patri, 184, 198
frontier, electronic, 88–92
Fukuyama, Francis, 203
Fuller, Buckminster, 48, 181
future: cryonics and, 135–46; idea futures and, 129–30; role of, in money and currency, 4–5, 13–17, 202–3; strategies for bringing about, 118–19, 127, 131–34, 146–47
Galileo Galilei, 54
Gastev, Alexei, 8
Geddes, Norman Bel, Horizons, 17
Geithner, Timothy, 21, 30
Gernsback, Hugo, 19
Gesell, Silvio, 209n10
Gibson, William, 88–89; Zero History, 31–32
Gilbert, Emily, 29
Gilmore, John, 80, 92–93
Gitelman, Lisa, 25
Glapiński, Adam, 21
global financial crisis (2008), 150, 153
Gödel, Kurt, 123
gold: digital currency compared to, 111–13, 168–69; digital gold currencies (DGCs), 175; future value of, 196; injunction against hoarding of, 170; physical properties of, 179. See also silver
GoldMoney, 175
Google, 218n12
Government Communications Headquarters (United Kingdom), 39
governments: anti-government sentiment, 90–91, 114, 172–75, 178–79; collapse of, 66; currency freed from, 125
Great Depression, 7–8, 12, 17
Greenberger, Martin, “Computers of Tomorrow,” 47–48
Grimmelmann, James, 186
guns, 114, 183–84
Hacker News, 121
Hackers Conference, 80
Hamilton, Alexander, 189
Hanson, Robin, 78, 129
hashcash, 102, 105, 110–12
hashing (data), 101–9, 159
Hastings, Sean, 184
HavenCo, 184–86
Hawthorne Exchange (HEx market), 127–28
Hayek, Friedrich, 70, 119, 122–27, 147–52, 176, 177
heat, generated by computers, 166
Heinlein, Robert, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 178
Hellman, Martin, 38, 40–42, 46, 158
Helsingius, Johan, 94–95
Hettinga, Robert, 214n26
hierarchical navigation interface, 216n49
Hillis, Danny, 166
Hock, Dee, 48–49, 157
Hong Kong, 185
Hopper, Grace, 5, 99–101, 103, 166
Howells, James, 164–65, 194
Howland, Sylvia, 42–44
Hubbert, Marion King, 209n2
Hughes, Eric, 64, 69, 80, 93
Huxley, Aldous, 172
Huygens, Christiaan, 54
hypertext, 76
idea futures, 129–30, 203
identification friend or foe (IFF), 38
immortalists, 95–96
indices (semiotics), 44–45
Indonesia, 193
information: audiences for covert, 93–94; digital cash as, 72–73; liberation of, 92–96; as money, 75–78, 117, 157; prices as, 123–24, 126
information marketplaces, 69–79, 83
infrastructural mutualism, 87–88
ING (financial institution), 60
Initial Coin Offerings, 204
Intel, 65
intellectual property, 72, 90
Internet, 49, 89
Interpol, 94
IntGold, 175
iron, as currency, 189
Johns, Adrian, Death of a Pirate, 184
Juettner, Emerich (aka Edward Mueller, Old Mr. 880), 29, 211n16
Kelly, Kevin, 215n34
Kelty, Chris, 87
Keynes, John Maynard, 16, 168, 174, 192
keys, to coded information, 36–39
KGB (Russian State Security Committee), 35, 50
Kirschenbaum, Matthew, 103
Knott, G. D., 102
Konkin, Samuel Edward, III, 177
Koselleck, Reinhart, 20
kosmos (order), 148
Kotelnikov, Vladimir, 36
Kraus, Karl, 123
Kriyananda, Swami, 172
Lackey, Ryan, 114, 183–86
land banks, 189–90
lava lamps, 105
leaking, of information, 87, 94
ledgers, 159–60, 162–63, 195, 201
Lenin, Vladimir, 145
Less Wrong, 121
letter one-time pad (LOP), 35–36, 212n5
Levy, Simon! D., 122
Lew, Jacob, 21
libertarianism: and Bitcoin, 191; catastrophe predictions of, 150–51, 174, 191, 196–99; and coinage/precious metals, 150, 170, 171, 181–83, 191–92, 197; and cryptocurrency, 191–93; economic and political theories of, 177; escape fantasies and projects of, 170, 180–83, 198–99; Extropians and, 121, 122; gatherings associated with, 190–91; literature favored by, 178; and money, 171–75, 178–80, 192–93, 196–97; and politics, 190–91; Rand and, 85, 180
liberty. See freedom
Liberty Dollars, 172–75
Lincoln, Abraham, 29
Lindstrom, Monty, 182
logical machines, 212n22
Lovell, Stanley, 193
Luhn, Hans Peter, 103
Lycurgus, 189
Mach, Ernst, 123
Machado, Romana, 133
Marks, Leo, 35, 212n5
Marquand, Allan, 212n22
Marx, Karl, 126–27
Maurer, Bill, 169
May, Timothy C., 65–69, 73–74, 79–80, 82–86, 89–96, 98, 111, 113–15, 120, 128, 161, 177, 183, 200, 217n12
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 144–46
McCarthy, John, 37–38, 48
medallions, 172
Meirelles, Henrique, 21
Melanesia, 138
Melville, Herman: The Confidence-Man, 25; Moby Dick, 45
memory, computer, 102–3
Merkle, Ralph, 38, 93, 120, 155
Merkle tree, 38
Metzger, Perry, 120, 155, 170
Microsoft, 60
Milhon, Jude “StJude,” v, 62–64, 66, 79, 81, 82, 90, 198
Miller, Mark, 77–78, 111, 120, 216n49
Minerva, Republic of, 181–83
mining, of Bitcoin, 159–60, 167, 200, 200–201
minting, of digital cash, 116–17
Mises, Ludwig von, 123, 126, 178, 182, 191, 194
Mises Institute, 176
Mondo 2000 (magazine), 64
money: alternatives to, 7–8; Austrian economists’ conception of, 125–26; chief issues for, 2; cryonics in relation to, 136–37; electronic, 47–51; as information, 75–78, 117, 157; intrinsic value of, 126, 137; libertarian/agorist conceptions of, 171–75, 178–80, 192–93, 196–97; objective value of, 9, 151, 170, 175, 179–80; origins of, 13; role of time in, 13–17, 202–3; science fiction accounts of, 19; social relationships expressed through, 14–16, 51, 188–89; strategic role of, in shaping the future, 134; surveillance and control of electronic, 49–53; time as, 118. See also currency; digital cash
More, Max (né O’Connor), 118–19, 121–22, 134, 137, 150, 205
More, Thomas, Utopia, 85
Morrow, T. O. (né Tom Bell), 121, 122
Moses coin, 224n2
MP-Infinity, 122
Mueller, Edward. See Juettner, Emerich
Musil, Robert, 123
Naess, Arne, 219n7
Nakamoto, Satoshi (pseudonym), 111, 117, 120, 154–59, 161–63, 169, 170, 200
names, 81–82. See also anonymity
nanoseconds, 100
Naor, Moni, “Pricing via Processing,” 218n6
Narayanan, Arvind, 61
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), 106
National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Code (NORFED), 172–74
Nelms, Taylor, 169
Nelson, Theodor “Ted,” 74–77, 80, 155, 161
Neurath, Otto, 123
New Hebrides, 182
New Nutrition movement, 17–18
newsgroups, 84
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 67, 148
Nixon, Richard, 29, 50, 65, 182
Nock, Albert Jay, 198–99
nonplaces, 85–86, 89, 185
North Sea platform. See Sealand
NotHaus, Bernard von, 171–75, 193
nowhere. See nonplaces
nuclear chain reaction test, 140–41
Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 94–95
O’Connor, Max. See More, Max
Office of Strategic Service (OSS), 193
Old Mr. 880. See Juettner, Emerich
one-dollar bills, 26–29
Oneida Perfectionists, 119
Onion Routing, 115
open source software. See free/open source software movement
Orwell, George, 1984, 50
OSGold, 175
Overcoming Bias, 129
ownership. See property, information as
paraphs, 45
Parekh, Sameer, 95, 184
partial hash collision algorithms, 101, 109, 117
passing current, 4, 69
Passports for Bitcoin, 197
Patreon, 95
PayPal, 95, 175, 198
Pecunix, 175
Peirce, Benjamin, 43–44
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 43–44, 212n22
Pergamit, Gayle, 74
PGP. See pretty good privacy (PGP)
Phoenix Foundation, 182
Pinochet, Augusto, 123, 148, 177
PipeNet, 115
place. See nonplaces
planning, ineffectiveness of, 124–27, 132, 147–48. See also spontaneous order
Platt, Charles, 138–39
Plutarch, 189
Poe, Edgar Allan, 83, 85
poem ciphers, 34–35
Poovey, Mary, 28
Popper, Karl, 70, 123, 124
PorcFest, 190–91
postage stamps, 109–10
posthuman era, 73, 95, 119–20, 131, 136, 139
Potvin, Richard, 130–31
praxeology, 123, 127, 194
Presley, Telle, 172
pretty good privacy (PGP), 94–95
prices, 123–25
Prometheus Project, 139
proofs of work, 97, 102, 108, 110–11, 158–61. See also reusable proof of work
property, information as, 76–77. See also intellectual property
pseudonyms, 116
public key encryption, 38–39, 55–56, 97–98
pyramid schemes, 130–31
Rabinbach, Anson, 109
Rake, Denis, 34
Rand, Ayn, 151, 191; Atlas Shrugged, 18, 85, 178–80, 184, 198–99; The Fountainhead, 6
randomness, 105–6
reading, 28
realness, 173–74, 178
“recognizable without being known,” 42, 45, 54
recursive publics, 87
Reddit, 121
the Remnant, 198–99
reserve technologies, 14, 210n16
reusable proof of work (RPOW), 110–11, 158
“The Revolt of the Scientists” (story), 19
Rid, Thomas, 85
Rivest, Ron, 40–41, 42, 218n6
Robertson, Frances, 27
Robin, Corey, 148
Robinson, Hetty, 42–43
Romain, Tiffany, 137, 139
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 7, 29, 170
Rothbard, Murray, 123, 178
Royal Hawaiian Mint Company, 171
RPOW. See reusable proof of work
RSA algorithm, 41, 97–98
Rucker, Rudy, 80–81
Salin, Phillip, 69–70, 72–75, 79, 83, 139, 200
scatter storage, 103
Schroeppel, Richard, 38
Schulman, J. Neil, Alongside Night, 177–78
Schwartz, Hillel, 45
science: currencies in imaginaries of, 19–20; visions of society based on, 8, 10, 17–18
Scott, Howard, 6–9, 17–18, 124, 203
Scott, Michael, 69
Sealand, 114, 184–86
sealed-envelope approach, 54
Searls, Doc, 71
seasteading, 133, 180–81, 184, 198
Second Amendment Dollars, 175
secure paper, 25–26
security: of digital cash, 54–59; of virtual banks, 113. See also authentication
semiotics, 44
Serviss, Garrett, The Moon Metal, 19
SHA-1 algorithm, 107–8, 218n12
SHA-256 algorithm, 167
Shamir, Adi, 40–41, 42
Shannon, Claude, 36
Shirriff, Ken, 167
signature blocks, 65–66
signatures: authentication of digital, 46; authentication of written, 43–44; Bitcoin and, 162; on currency, 23; digital, 41–42, 45–46, 162; properties of, 43–46; written, 43–44, 46
signs (semiotics), 44–45
Silicon Valley, 88, 122
Silk Road (darknet market), 92, 123, 175, 177
silver, 173–75, 181, 188, 191–93. See also gold
Simberg, Rand, 139
the Singularity, 81, 138, 204
Situationist International, 119
Smith, Vera, The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative, 176
social credit, 12
social organization: digital surveillance and control of, 49–52; money/currency as expression of, 14–16, 22–23, 28–29, 51, 67–68, 188–89; open source computing and, 87–88; science as basis for, 8, 10, 17–18
social prototypes, 88
sovereign citizen movement, 173
Soviet Union, 8, 225n12
space shuttles, 70, 73, 75
Spacewar! (video game), 71, 89
spam, 98–99, 101
Spang, Rebecca, 14, 22, 23, 24, 131, 188
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 34–35
speculative currencies, 6, 16–17, 128–29, 150
spontaneous order, 118, 121, 124–27, 133, 148
Spooner, Lysander, 191
Stallman, Richard, 93; “The Road to Tycho,” 93
stamp scrip, 12, 209n10
Starheim, Odd, 34
Starstruck, 69
steel engraving, 27
Sterling, Bruce, 203
Sternlight, David, 216n9
Stevens, Jimmy, 182
Stiefel, Werner (pen name: Warren Stevens), 180–81
StJude. See Milhon, Jude
St. Kitts and Nevis, 197
StockGeneration, 130–31
Strugatsky, Boris and Arkady, Roadside Picnic, 133
substitution squares, 35–36, 212n5
Sunshine Minting, 172–73
surveillance and control, 49–53
Swartz, Lana, 29, 87, 169
symmetry, for coded communication, 36–39
Szabo, Nick, 111, 120, 134, 155, 159, 160, 162
Szilard, Leo, 140–43, 145
Talking Heads, 65
Tarkovsky, Andrei, Stalker, 133
Technate, 9, 12
Technocracy Inc., 6–10, 12–13, 16–18, 20, 124, 203, 209n2
thalers, 188, 193
Thales of Miletus, 16
Thiel, Peter, 198
Thomlinson, Matt, 129
Thoreau, Henry David, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, 95
thresholds, 81–82, 85
time: cosmograms as models of, 11–12; as money, 118; role of, in money, 13–17, 202–3. See also future
Time League, 8
Tor, 115
transhumanism, 130–32
trapdoor cryptosystems, 40–42
Treasury bills, 13
Tresch, John, 10–11, 16
Trichet, Jean Claude, 21
trust, 169
tumbler system, 77
Turner, Fred, 80, 88, 89
twenty-dollar bills, 29–30
Twin Oaks community, 119
Ulbricht, Ross, 92, 123, 175–77
United States, credit in, 24–25
Unix, 93
Urbit, 219n20
utopian engineering, 124
utopianism, 6, 119–20, 150, 180
value: Bitcoin and, 195–96, 201; coins as expression of, 171, 187–89; of digital data, 2–3; of gold, 196; of money, 9, 126, 137, 151, 170, 175, 179–80
Vanuatu, 182
Vatican, 20
Veblen, Thorstein, 18
Ver, Roger, 197
verification. See authentication
Versace, Gianni, 184
Vesco, Bobby, 182
Vian, Boris, v
Vienna Circle, 123
Vinge, Vernor, 81; True Names, 79, 81–83, 91, 185
violence, 82, 115
Visa, 48–49, 60
Vita-More, Natasha, 122
Wake, Nancy, 34, 37
Walford, Roy, 133
Walker, John, 75–76, 78
warehouse receipts, 173–75
WELL (social network), 89
Wells, H. G., 13, 194; The Shape of Things to Come, 18
WerBell, Mitchell Livingston, III, 182
White, Harry Dexter, 192, 225n12
whitelisting, 98
WikiLeaks, 87, 95
Wilder, Billy, The Spirit of St. Louis, 31
Williamson, Malcolm, 39
Wired (magazine), 184–85, 215n34
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 123
Wittgenstein family, 149
Wonder Stories (magazine), 19
Wörgl experiment, 209n10
Xanadu Operating Company (XOR), 74–80, 161, 200, 215n37
Xth Column, 92, 97, 177
Yale University, 13
Yarvin, Curtis “Mencius Moldbug,” 219n20
Yudkowsky, Eliezer, 219n20
Zelizer, Viviana, 15
Zuse, Konrad, 72