VoIP and Tornado Cash prove Kurzweil right — code can outrun the state. But 2025’s record internet shutdowns and lawful-decryption patents show the institutions learned to route back.
Kurzweil predicted in 2005 that stem-cell restrictions would accelerate transdifferentiation. A year later, Yamanaka did exactly that. Here is what the rest of his regulation thesis got right — and what 2025 is quietly rewriting.