Whether it’s the calls from governments to ban encryption, come up with “responsible encryption”, or to violate norms and laws, cryptography is playing a role in shaping our society. Lyrebird is building technology that allows people to enter text, and they will generate a rather convincing audio file of someone (like… say… Donald Trump) speaking it. Today you may think “this doesn’t quite sound like Donald Trump” or “that doesn’t quite look like Barack Obama”, but technology only moves forward.