Digital Freedom Archives - Herbert R. Sim

Artificial Intelligence and the End of Informational Privacy

January 22, 2023

My illustration entitled: "The Privacy Eclipse" - a radiant AI sphere passes before a symbolic moon marked “PRIVACY,” casting the city into an informational eclipse. I protect the citizens beneath a translu...

Self-Sovereign Identity: Proving Without Revealing

July 5, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Broken Mirror of Data Extraction" - a giant corporate scanner attempts to reconstruct Herbert’s complete identity from countless fragments. Herbert raises a cryptographic shie...

CBDCs, Stablecoins and Programmable Money

September 24, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Three Rivers of Digital Money" - Three luminous rivers—CBDCs, stablecoins and Bitcoin—flow through a futuristic city. I stand at their intersection, examining who controls eac...

Open Knowledge Is Digital Sovereignty

February 14, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why the Freedom to Understand, Verify and Share Is Essential to Life in the Digital Age My illustration entitled "The Sovereign Knowledge Toolkit" - I open an enormous illuminated case containing the t...

Against Digital Absolutism: Why Cypherpunkism Is Not Anti-State or Anti-Corporation

August 22, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Shield Against Absolutism" - I raise a luminous shield between citizens and two corrupted manifestations of power: an all-seeing surveillance state and an exploitative corpora...

The Cypherpunkism FAQ: Twenty Objections Answered

November 12, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Hydra of Misconceptions" - I confront a twenty-headed mechanical hydra whose heads symbolize recurring misconceptions: “privacy protects criminals,” “decentralization creates ...

The Cypherpunkist Test: Who Does the Technology Empower?

October 10, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Litmus Test" - I place different technologies—AI, digital currency, social platforms, biometrics and brain–computer interfaces—into a luminous testing apparatu...

The Right to Exit in Digital Civilization

November 1, 2017

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Lifeboat from the Centralized Ark" - a gigantic corporate digital vessel begins transforming into a surveillance machine. Me, and other citizens escape aboard smaller decentra...

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