-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - From the node of anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com: : : I want to propose that a change to more of a Snow Crash society : with anarcho-capitalism as the norm is not necessarily being : _caused_ by pressures listed above, but, rather, fit a grander : historical destiny. What we are seeing and will see in the : Not necessarily to the EXTREME that Stephenson predicted, but I definitely see alot of what he said already starting to happen. Hell, look at the Burbclaves. Lil' old Indiana, PA had their first drive-by shooting a few months ago. Some of the growing gang-warefare influence is starting to spill over from Pittsburgh. Once people get a little more frightened of violence, the engineered community idea is going to explode. Now take that with private and corporate police forces and ... BINGO! Snowcrash. : Consider the possibility that the dissolution of large, : centralized federal republics is also inevitable. (The : Frissel/Sandforth Optimists have been arguing this exact point.) : The decentralizing effect of digital networks (or Webs a la Hakim Bey) is pretty self evident. One can easily extrapolate the effects of a structure like the Internet, a structure that by nature routes around any form of 'censorship' from above. - ----- Doc doc@phobos.lib.iup.edu aka Mark Rogaski http://www.lib.iup.edu/~rogaski/ Disclaimer: You would probably be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who agrees with me, much less my university or employer... [finger fllevta@oak.grove.iup.edu for PGP Public Key and Geek Code v2.1] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLxMZ/R0c4/pqJauBAQH8LwP+PrvNhKJVEzmhZVcuvkNMLmGWWgyflAlh PxvR5BtJHBpE/oNqB3TVOywt9eJYeIV7L7BSboIFosEyqC4OEFS6WRTAJpWhPg8L L9CdvhaDKubnTteBEtugEtU1HB3iJ+zRucJYUVit0bBwCimcqvr/aTMab7h4Yqw9 uKJPulSTg/w= =jdlE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- Doc doc@phobos.lib.iup.edu aka Mark Rogaski http://www.lib.iup.edu/~rogaski/ Disclaimer: You would probably be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who agrees with me, much less my university or employer... [finger fllevta@oak.grove.iup.edu for PGP Public Key and Geek Code v2.1]