The talk discusses the new breakthroughs happening in cryptography and the need to escape the death trap of trying to follow the competition. It emphasizes the importance of elegant abstractions and the philosophy of free software. The speaker explains zero knowledge proofs, Merkel trees, homomorphic encryption, and other cryptographic techniques as tools for creating a new paradigm of computing. The talk also touches on anonymous engineering, which involves using different techniques to create schemas that enable applications with invariance to hold. The speaker demonstrates practical examples such as anonymous voting, anonymous payments, atomic swaps, and network spam protection. The talk concludes by urging the audience to build something new and inventive, and showcases their website with documentation and implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.