Vinge's politics/was Re: [extropy-chat] Vinge's next novel, Rainbow's End

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> On Friday, December 16, 2005 5:44 PM 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.

If you read A Deepness in the Sky, you'll see he's quite explicit about it;
in that novel, ubiquitous law enforcement - or even simple centralization of
power - built atop localizer nets and related automation is understood and
demonstrated to be the doom of civilizations.

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