[extropy-chat] Vinge's next novel, Rainbow's End

[Neil H.]

On 12/16/05, Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/16/05, "Hal Finney" <hal at finney.org> wrote:
> >
> > I think Vinge needs to come to grips with the potential of a localizer
> > net for misuse by facist governments.  I don't know what his politics
> > are but this description makes it sound like this threat is somewhat
> > being whitewashed and government presented solely as a benevolent force.
> >
> ### Somebody who wrote "Peacewar", "The Ungoverned" and "Marooned in
> Realtime", unless suffering from advanced dementia, would be unlikely
> to see the government as a benevolent force. The review probably
> conceals more than it reveals.
>
> I started becoming an anarchocapitalist only after reading these three
> books.



Hehe... you're not the only one. "The Ungoverned" was my first exposure to
the term anarcho-capitalism (although I'd been exposed to the concepts a
little via Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age), and I've been
quite interested in it ever since.

-- Neil
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