In his new book (a good old fashioned future?) The first story is about groups of people who operate through a gift and favor economy, doing each other favors and the like, In this way they avoid even dealing with governments, they are of course treated as gangsters and persecuted. The whole system is run by their personal computers, they get instructions like buy a jar of pickles and leave it on this corner at 10pm. And somehow it all works out. The whole point of this is that while the concept of online countries feels lame, a vast international affinity group of like minded people conducting their lives outside of traditional national alliegence through the internet is cool (to me)
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from the article:
The question remains: do we want to slip into our
computers the way we slip into our clothing?
for me that would mean slipping into my wearable computer at a dead run on the way to the subway.
and then someone would have to tell me:
hey man you misbuttoned your computer.
In his new book (a good old fashioned future?) The first story is about groups of people who operate through a gift and favor economy, doing each other favors and the like, In this way they avoid even dealing with governments, they are of course treated as gangsters and persecuted. The whole system is run by their personal computers, they get instructions like buy a jar of pickles and leave it on this corner at 10pm. And somehow it all works out. The whole point of this is that while the concept of online countries feels lame, a vast international affinity group of like minded people conducting their lives outside of traditional national alliegence through the internet is cool (to me)